Engineering Ethics

Contemporary duty ethicists recognize that many moral dilemmas are resolvable only by recognizing some valid exceptions to simple principles of duty.

—Introduction to Engineering Ethics p 54.

We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way—centered on money or pleasure or ambition—and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly.

—C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

What is important?

One never forgets what is important. I learned that only later, when I was somewhat older. Nothing secondary remains—it gets thrown away along with one's dreams.

—Sándor Márai, Embers (trans. Carol Brown Janeway).

I wish you'd stop quoting!

"Mrs. Who, I wish you'd stop quoting!" Charles Wallace sounded very annoyed.

"But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own."

—Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time p28.