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Top 400 Michael Lewis Quotes (2026 Update)
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Michael Lewis Quote: “When people asked Sam for his time, they assumed they’d posed a yes or no question, and the noises Sam made always sounded more like “yes” than like “no.” They didn’t know that inside Sam’s mind was a dial, with zero on one end and one hundred on the other. All he had done, when he said yes, was to assign some non-zero probability to the proposed use of his time.”

401. “When people asked Sam for his time, they assumed they’d posed a yes or no question, and the noises Sam made always sounded more like “yes” than like “no.” They didn’t know that inside Sam’s mind was a dial, with zero on one end and one hundred on the other. All he had done, when he said yes, was to assign some non-zero probability to the proposed use of his time.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “But not for him. “This is the crux of science,” he’d say with enthusiasm. “All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction.” Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?”

402. “But not for him. “This is the crux of science,” he’d say with enthusiasm. “All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction.” Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “The “false narrative” and “obtuse political talking points” around the IRS’s criminal investigations depress him. He wishes more people knew about the work Koopman and his agents really do – these tireless, dedicated people, working all hours, shutting down suppliers of fentanyl, saving kids, disrupting terrorists... Oh, and as a byproduct of that work, making cryptocurrency a safer space for all those libertarians who hate the IRS, so that they can go get rich without being ripped off.”

403. “The “false narrative” and “obtuse political talking points” around the IRS’s criminal investigations depress him. He wishes more people knew about the work Koopman and his agents really do – these tireless, dedicated people, working all hours, shutting down suppliers of fentanyl, saving kids, disrupting terrorists... Oh, and as a byproduct of that work, making cryptocurrency a safer space for all those libertarians who hate the IRS, so that they can go get rich without being ripped off.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “Communicable meant a person could give it to another person. You could get Lyme disease, for instance, but you couldn’t give it to somebody else. Communicable diseases were the diseases that created crises.”

404. “Communicable meant a person could give it to another person. You could get Lyme disease, for instance, but you couldn’t give it to somebody else. Communicable diseases were the diseases that created crises.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “No single intervention would stop a flu-like disease in its tracks, just as no single safety measure would prevent a doctor from replacing the right hip when it was the left hip that hurt. The trick was to mix and match strategies in response to the nature of the disease and the behavior of the population. Each strategy was like another slice of Swiss cheese; enough slices, properly aligned, would hide the holes.”

405. “No single intervention would stop a flu-like disease in its tracks, just as no single safety measure would prevent a doctor from replacing the right hip when it was the left hip that hurt. The trick was to mix and match strategies in response to the nature of the disease and the behavior of the population. Each strategy was like another slice of Swiss cheese; enough slices, properly aligned, would hide the holes.”

— Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis Quote: “The absence of pandemic prevention was another example of a deficiency in the system.”

406. “The absence of pandemic prevention was another example of a deficiency in the system.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “No one knew why some people were superspreaders:.”

407. “No one knew why some people were superspreaders:.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “To fire a competent civil servant is a pain in the ass. To fire a competent presidential appointee is as easy as tweeting.”

408. “To fire a competent civil servant is a pain in the ass. To fire a competent presidential appointee is as easy as tweeting.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “Why am I spending another minute of my life reading about and yapping about Donald Trump when I know nothing about the 2 million or so federal employees and their possibly lifesaving work that the president is intent on eliminating?”

409. “Why am I spending another minute of my life reading about and yapping about Donald Trump when I know nothing about the 2 million or so federal employees and their possibly lifesaving work that the president is intent on eliminating?”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president.”

410. “Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “It shouldn’t be the Centers for Disease Control. It should be the Centers for Disease Observation and Reporting. That’s what they do well.”

411. “It shouldn’t be the Centers for Disease Control. It should be the Centers for Disease Observation and Reporting. That’s what they do well.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “At the height of the Vietnam War, a coal miner was nearly as likely to be killed on the job as an American soldier in uniform was to die in combat, and far more likely to be injured.”

412. “At the height of the Vietnam War, a coal miner was nearly as likely to be killed on the job as an American soldier in uniform was to die in combat, and far more likely to be injured.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “She spent huge amounts of time with the public-health nurses, for instance, and treated them not as subordinates but as teachers. She insisted on seeing patients directly, which was truly odd.”

413. “She spent huge amounts of time with the public-health nurses, for instance, and treated them not as subordinates but as teachers. She insisted on seeing patients directly, which was truly odd.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “That’s because you cannot trust Americans to take only their slice of the American Dream. Many Americans want the whole dream, and then they want to sell it back to the rest of us at an extremely marked-up price.”

414. “That’s because you cannot trust Americans to take only their slice of the American Dream. Many Americans want the whole dream, and then they want to sell it back to the rest of us at an extremely marked-up price.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “Companies that manufactured aspirin petitioned the White House. “The White House called and told us to cease and desist,” recalled Foege. “Do a new study.” The aspirin makers had been able to force the CDC to scrap its findings and slow down science. Foege had resigned after that. “The fact that they would risk the lives of children – it just bothered me so much,” he said.”

415. “Companies that manufactured aspirin petitioned the White House. “The White House called and told us to cease and desist,” recalled Foege. “Do a new study.” The aspirin makers had been able to force the CDC to scrap its findings and slow down science. Foege had resigned after that. “The fact that they would risk the lives of children – it just bothered me so much,” he said.”

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Michael Lewis Quote: “The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn’t use it.”

416. “The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn’t use it.”

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