Alert Quotes

“Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Rescue”
― James Patterson, Alert

“reluctantly”
― James Patterson, Alert

“It’s simple, really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Even something to do with nanotechnology. Schopenhauer said that a smart man can hit a target that others can’t reach, but a genius can hit a target that others can’t see.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“thought of as a coastal city, but it actually had 520 miles of coastline, more than Miami, LA, and San Fran combined.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“New York was rarely”
― James Patterson, Alert

“it erases magnetic computer memories and welds closed the microscopic junctions in sensitive transistors and computer chips.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Nonnuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons. It’s a weapon that creates a massive electromagnetic field and then pulses it in a given area, creating an energy wave so powerful that”
― James Patterson, Alert

“The white guy’s name was Gregg Bentivengo. His handsome Hispanic buddy was Julio Torrone. They were recently graduated New York University students, now roommates and partners in a start-up marketing and promotional firm they’d dubbed Emerald Marketing Solutions.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“What the hell is this? he thought. “What are you guys doing just standing there?” Rafael cried up at the towering Lopez brothers. “I sent you to that training course why? For exercise? Shit is going down now! Get out the vests and choppers now.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“It’s simple, really. The more we ask”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Schopenhauer said that a smart man can hit a target that others can’t reach, but a genius can hit a target that others can’t see.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“It was a place where innovative computer-model formats were used to illuminate detailed processes that were compared for effectiveness of indices of performance before implementations of flexible tactics to achieve the development of comprehensive solutions were discussed in a team-building environment.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“and not have it.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it”
― James Patterson, Alert

“more than Miami, LA, and San Fran combined.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“New York was rarely thought of as a coastal city, but it actually had 520 miles of coastline,”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Nonnuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons. It’s a weapon that creates a massive electromagnetic field and then pulses it in a given area, creating an energy wave so powerful that it erases magnetic computer memories and welds closed the microscopic junctions in sensitive transistors and computer chips.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“The white guy’s name was Gregg Bentivengo. His handsome Hispanic buddy was Julio Torrone. They were recently graduated New York University students, now roommates and partners in a start-up marketing and promotional firm they’d dubbed Emerald Marketing Solutions. “A church?”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Lieutenant Bryce Miller? He’s the new counterterrorism head over at the NYPD Intelligence Division,”
― James Patterson, Alert

“My boss, Miriam Schwartz, had sent a text about an hour before. In it she let me know that during the week I’d been in Ireland, the department had appointed a guy I’d vaguely heard of named Neil Fabretti to be its newest chief of detectives.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“murdered, every day of which she lived”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Right now, who is really more powerful? Google or the NSA?”
― James Patterson, Alert

“It’s hard to believe, but before manufacturing went to Asia, New York City was an industrial powerhouse. In the thirties and forties, seventy-five percent of women’s clothes in the country were made right here between Sixth and Ninth Avenues, from Forty-Second down to Thirtieth. They were stitched up and put on racks and then rolled over to Macy’s on Thirty-Fourth for sale. Everything was centered around Penn Station, so people from out of town could come in and shop. The garment district here is why New York’s fashion industry still leads the world and Seventh Avenue means fashion.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“Because what if the three billion dollars were paid? What was to stop them from blowing up the cliff anyway? Or charging another three billion next week? Though it wasn’t announced, the mayor had also decided that, deadline or no deadline, she wasn’t going to give them a single penny of her or the city’s money. Which, again, was exactly right, in my humble opinion. Terrorists needed to be dealt with head-on. Whoever was doing this to us needed to be found and stopped, not negotiated with.”
― James Patterson, Alert

“You need to use this as a lever to urge politicians to pass cautionary laws to put a stop to drones and especially robotics and artificial intelligence. People urge gun control after a school shooting, right? Well, we won’t have to worry about a school shooter in the near future because he’ll be cooking up a genetically engineered supervirus in his basement, and everyone on earth will be dead. You need to ensure that these technologies are treated like radioactive nuclear material, because that’s how dangerous this is, and—”
― James Patterson, Alert

“And oddly enough, some of the stuff he said about technology I think is actually true. These military robots they’re starting to build really are scary. “And this self-driving smartcar idea? Maybe it’ll make some things cheaper, but won’t it also put every truck driver and cabbie and FedEx and UPS worker in the world out of work? For what? So college kids can drink and drive safely? That you can do something amazing is amazing, but when is it too much?”
― James Patterson, Alert

“The coliseum-like, bowl-shaped CompStat conference room behind him was a pen pusher’s paradise, I knew. It was a place where innovative computer-model formats were used to illuminate detailed processes that were compared for effectiveness of indices of performance before implementations of flexible tactics to achieve the development of comprehensive solutions were discussed in a team-building environment. In plain English, it was a bureaucratic version of hell on earth.”
― James Patterson, Alert