Farhad Manjoo (1978) American journalist
Source: The Incredible Shrinking Apple http://nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/apple-steve-jobs.html in The New York Times (3 April 2019)
The New York Times, January 18, 1981 Quotation of the Day http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/quotation-of-the-day-227621.html?scp=28&sq=Brzezinski&st=nyt. <br class="br">Variant: History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
Farhad Manjoo (1978) American journalist
Source: The Incredible Shrinking Apple http://nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/apple-steve-jobs.html in The New York Times (3 April 2019)
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
"The Mindscape of Alan Moore" (2003)
Context: The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12 foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.
“It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?”
China Miéville book The City & the City
Source: The City & the City (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 141)
“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 3
Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
"The Oral Tradition"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)
Michael Scheuer (1952) American counterterrorism analyst
Through Our Enemies' Eyes (p. 280)
2000s