To my mother and father, for genetically encoding me to challenge the conventional wisdom, and providing the most immeasurable of all blessings: their love and unwavering support in everything I do.
“At every crossway on the road that leads to the future each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian Nobel Laureate in literature, 1911
“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
—Samuel Adams
