If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are. . . or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.