"The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice."

Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

Ben Aaronovitch

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“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
“Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.”

Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.25
“The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache.”
“Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.”
“The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.”
“Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.”
“I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.”

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