Josh

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”
― Jim Barksdale

“In further institutionalizing the great power of the majority, we are making the individual come to distrust himself. We are giving him a rationalization for the unconscious urging to find an authority that would resolve the burdens of free choice. We are tempting him to reinterpret the group pressures as a release, authority as freedom, and that this quest assumes a moral guise makes it only the more poignant.”
― William H. Whyte, The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation

“Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there's this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I'd sit there and order a Fernet Branca. I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy.”
― Alfred Pennyworth