James Baldwin quotes

[jenk]

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

I ran across this while looking up titles for a crossword. It's very true. I would say it's even truer for testers because we are paid and encouraged to focus on what *doesn't* work.

Also: "All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is."