…don’t fall into the trap of thinking that it is your employer’s job to train you. This is your career—you have to take responsibility for it.

— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their ‘generosity’, the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent fount of this ‘generosity’.

— Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed

On his deathbed in 1969, Dwight Eisenhower asked a friend about “my scientists” and said they were “one of the few groups that I encountered in Washington who seemed to be there to help the country and not help themselves.”

— Matthew Lyon and Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late