Sam Gittleman

“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The challenge we face today is not a moral dilemma; it is rather a moral imperative, long overdue in recognition, to collectively cultivate the technomoral virtues needed to confront… emerging technosocial challenges wisely and well.”
― Shannon Vallor, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting

“Markets, as human institutions, are legitimized only by their promotion of human flourishing. To sacrifice the latter to the former is neither pragmatism nor realism—it is insanity.”
― Shannon Vallor, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
― Hillel the Elder