Quotes by Marc Siegel

“Youve got to make a distinction between something that affects a few versus something that affects many.”

“it may very well not be this bug.”

“If we stockpile vaccine against a bug that doesnt affect us directly we may end up having to discard it,”

“its hard to get the manufacturers excited about it.”

“[The message to consumers?] Dont start thinking of alcohol as a panacea, ... Even if there is some benefit, there is a cautionary flag. A drink a night is generally believed to cut the risk of heart disease, but it is hardly medicinal. And this study reminds you of that.”

“[But even aspirin cant counteract the] universal fear epidemic ... that didnt truly threaten us. Then, once we were worried, we saw that our federal agencies werent functioning effectively, which worried us further.”

“We determined that part of the problem was with software we were getting from an outside vendor, and were continuing to improve the experience. But were telling our customers to expect a three- to five-day wait [for the port]. You need to be realistic.”

“The ways its being communicated to the public is that its an inevitable scenario, ... People are scared of having a bird feeder now and its not even here in birds.”

“With an unrivalled twelve years experience identifying early warning signs and uncovering aggressive and sometimes fraudulent accounting, weve been able to create a desktop resource that is unrivalled in its capacity to improve the focus, effectiveness and efficiency of those analyzing financial statements.”

“[Of course, the data sample were working with is far too small to draw definitive long-term conclusions.] This is very early in the process, ... Anything anyone sees now is anecdotal.”