I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. – Charles Dudley Warner

They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin