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“And even as the chariot of time hustles me along, I never forget that Bob Caro is coming up from behind with volume five of LBJ. I hope he makes it. I hope I make it.”
― Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life

“Just as Snow was concocting his theory of cholera as a waterborne agent that had
to be ingested to do harm, Chadwick was building an elaborate scheme that would
deliver the cholera directly to the mouths of Londoners. (A modern bio-terrorist
couldn't have come up with a more ingenious and far-reaching scheme).”
― Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map

“Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.”
― Walter Mosley, A Red Death

“I'd made a reckless decision, but I was encouraged by reports that Sir Alan Turing, war hero and presiding genius of the digital age, had taken delivery of the same model.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines like Me