LAI

“Inside a dark pool, no one but the broker who ran it had any idea what was happening.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

“the stage of bone growth in individuals whose ages at death were known, anthropologists were able to come up with”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

“At one point he turned to Christie and said, “Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“Nightingale and Farr concluded that poor sanitation had caused many of the deaths in the Crimean War hospitals, and that most military and medical professionals had failed to learn this lesson. The problem was much bigger than one war: it was an ongoing public health disaster in barracks, civilian hospitals and beyond. The pair began to campaign for better public health measures, tighter laws on hygiene in rented properties, and improvements to sanitation in barracks and hospitals across the country.”
― Tim Harford, How to Make the World Add Up : Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers