325 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

If there was ever a candidate to be patron saint of computers then it would be Alan Turing. Mathematician, war hero and tragic victim of homophobia.