Class Status Quotes

“Scott! If we had a band, we would be cool. Even if we sucked! We would transcend our class status or whatever, and become automatically cool.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

“We have no illusions about this. ... When an attending physician brings a family member in for surgery, people at the hospital think hard about how much to let the trainees participate. ... Conversely, the ward services and clinics where residents have the most responsibility are populated by the poor, the uninsured, the drunk, and the demented.”
― Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science