As said in a Ventura County Star article about a Mexican Mafia Case Leiderman was defending. http://www.vcstar.com/news/one-man-led-large-prison-crime-ring-in-ventura
Variant: Investigators like to wave around the word "gang". They use it to strike fear in the heart of the community. It tends to also involve a lot of puffery and allegations that maybe perhaps aren't 100 percent solid.
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
Source: A dive into the reef's Twilight Zone https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_pyle_a_dive_into_the_reef_s_twilight_zone (February 2004)
[Seismology and plate tectonics, Cambridge, UK; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990, http://books.google.com/books?id=tZRxPzwoChIC&pg=PA4] (pp. 4–5)
Seismology and Plate Tectonics (1990)
“100 percent of me is nothing compared to one percent of the whole team.”
Eliud Kipchoge (2019) cited in: " Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge's Huge Sacrifice for Humanity https://allafrica.com/stories/201908280231.html" in Daily Nation, 27 August 2019.
“Quality tends to fan out like waves.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Context: Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going.
Source: Confessions of a Technophile (1994), p. 31
Technopagans at the End of History (1998)
Context: Virtual reality is a fairly new concept to us; but once you grok it, it seems clear that any civilization that was capable of starflight and longevity extension, and so forth and so on, would also have a full VR toolkit under control. Well then, that means that when we go looking for the extraterrestrial, what will be the footprint? Perhaps vanished races are all around us, but downloaded into solid-state matrices that we have only recently come to the point where we could even recognize that possibility.
