Pat Norman

“This last point is a request to the English-speaking reader. In France, certain half-witted ‘commentators’ persist in labelling me a ‘structuralist’. I have been unable to get it into their tiny minds that I have used none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis. I should be grateful if a more serious public would free me from a connection that certainly does me honour, but that I have not deserved.”
― Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Through a Glass, Darkly