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“That if you did something wrong and were unlucky enough to be caught, confessing was absolutely the worst thing you could do.” “Put it another way: that provided you didn’t confess, you stood a chance of winning. I think that’s the lesson he learned.”
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. —ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, “A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
Kusanagi suspected that a cabin on the Orient Express, the train from Agatha Christie’s famous novel, would probably be more comfortable than his room.
“Do you know the mystery novel The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr?”
When you revisit a street that you frequented as a child, it is often far smaller and narrower than you remembered it. This probably comes down to the change in one’s physical size. Typically, when, after the interval of a few years, you revisit a street you first saw as an adult, the impression hardly changes.
You only say you want to kill someone when you know you can’t really do it.”
If you want to conduct an experiment properly, you’re much better off not knowing what sort of result it’s going to produce.
Yukawa often likened police investigations to scientific experiments, but this time the comparison felt particularly compelling.
“As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?” Poirot stared straight ahead of him. “That is what I ask myself,” he said. —AGATHA CHRISTIE, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
“You shouldn’t be the one to decide if your idea is stupid or not. And you certainly don’t want to rush to judgment about something being impossible. Buried inside a crazy idea, you can often find useful hints for solving problems. You should come out and say it, and see what a third party has to say.”
