found myself humming under my breath—the second aria of Murderbot.
“What the hell happened to your house?” shouted Mr. Pressley. “Was it the government?”
― A House With Good Bones
― A House With Good Bones
“We received a new dataset each day. Because it took time for new cases to be reported, there were fewer recent cases in each of these datasets: if someone fell ill on a Monday, they generally wouldn’t show up in the data until Wednesday or Thursday. The epidemic was still going, but these delays made it look like it was almost over.”
― The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
― The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
“If you want to stop procrastinating, it may be because you realize that procrastinating is making you unhappy. Perhaps you should go directly to the project of being happy and let procrastination take care of itself.”
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
― The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
“Early notice makes possible all kinds of more efficient containment and mitigation. We could prevent some epidemics and more effectively prepare to withstand others. But even if such a global surveillance system can be built, it will work only if it translates into people actually using the information to do something about it.”
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
“There was a doily on the chest of drawers. I eyed it warily. I have nothing against doilies, but they’re a slippery slope. You start with doilies, then pretty soon it’s crocheted table runners and then it’s a short step to antimacassars.”
― A House With Good Bones
― A House With Good Bones
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