Quotes by Joshua Cohen

“A Quantitative Analysis of Prenatal Methyl Mercury Exposure and Cognitive Development”

“A Quantitative Analysis of Prenatal Intake of n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cognitive Development”

“A Quantitative RiskBenefit Analysis of Changes in Population Fish Consumption”

“Fish are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which may protect against coronary heart disease and stroke, and are thought to aid in the neurological development of unborn babies, ... If that information gets lost in how the public perceives this issue, then people may inappropriately curtail fish consumption and increase their risk for adverse health outcomes.”

“I think weve got two messages. If youre not pregnant and youre not going to become pregnant, eat fish. If you are pregnant or you are going to become pregnant, you should still eat fish, but you should eat fish low in mercury.”

“Its important to evaluate the pros and cons. Because when you do evaluate the pros and cons, if you make certain plausible assumptions about how people react, you can get some serious negative results.”

“These and other potential health effects yield a classic risk-risk trade-off.”

“That has been so successful, we constantly have to have more delivery runs. We were starting to have to look at some kind of fee structure, which we didnt want to do.”

“Obviously the higher gold price is going to be beneficial for the mining industry.”

In the future we would have total storage, all of us would, our media libraries would dematerialise and just float above us, books would no longer sit on the shelves reminding us that we had not read them, music and TV and film formats would no longer clutter the den reminding us of all we had not yet listened to or watched.

Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

Ive always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and Im doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them Im reading or running out to the movies. Its the surveillance I cant stand.