Author of quotes: John Verdon

In reality, in the world of crime and punishment (as in all human Affairs) objectivity is an illusion. Survival requires the ability to jump to conclusions. And decisive actions are always based on incomplete information.

- Excuse me, your honor. I got carried away. - Then get involved back.

Few things are as annoying in other people as your own shortcomings exhibited in a very unfavorable light.

Yoga and the detectives - brothers in different clothes, and they are both seekers of truth.

...one of the keys to a happy life and good career is the ability to find activity that you like so much that you're prepared to do it even for free, then find somebody that you will pay. Few who can do it. This is mainly pilots, musicians, actors, artists and athletes. And hired killers.

And nothing strengthens the human desire to give you anything like the confidence that you'll get it somewhere else.

Survival requires the ability to jump to conclusions. And decisive actions are always based on incomplete information. Hunter, requiring a vet certificate that he met the deer is really a deer will die of starvation. Inhabitant of the jungle, carefully counting the stripes on a tiger before fleeing, will be eaten. Genes that required to measure seven times and cut once, would not be passed to the next generation.
In the real world we have to connect the few dots we have, and guess them in a pattern having at least some practical sense. The system is flawed. Like life itself. The danger lies not so much in the small number of points, how many in unawareness of actions when we prefer one points in front of others, wanting to already established we have in mind the pattern. Our perception of events suffers more from the power of our emotions, than from a lack of data.

Action is the best antidote to inaction, and information is the only way to get rid of the doubt.

The gurney flashed slightly absurd idea: what is the most important thing in life is that many things were important to you.

Our brain loves the connectivity that confuses logic with truth.

Evil - "the mind in the service of the appetite is not restrained by any morality."

The knowledge of who you are, not forcing you to change.