A bit off topic, but there's a quotation I find so compelling that I post it in my office and on the front of my website: "The society which scorns excellence

A bit off topic, but there's a quotation I find so compelling that I post it in my office and on the front of my website: "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy as an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." J. Gardner I'm in a field (academia) where it is very easy to allow yourself to get away with doing shoddy work as a result of pridefulness.