Richard Peto quotes

Richard Peto quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.”
-- Richard Peto

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“The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?”
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.”
“As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.”
“I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.”
“There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?”
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“The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.”
“It is quite a three-pipe problem.”
“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”

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