
„It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957
2010-
— Edward Snowden American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor 1983
Twitter June 11, 2016 https://twitter.com/snowden/status/741584993009438720?lang=en
— Ralph Peters American military officer, writer, pundit 1952
Source: 2000s, Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002), p. 133
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Tel Quel (1943)
— Leslie Lamport American computer scientist 1941
As quoted in [Nathan, David E., Computer scientist Leslie Lamport to grads: If you can’t write, it won’t compute, https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2017/may/commencement-lamport.html, Brandeis University, 17 January 2020, May 21, 2017]
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
Steve Jobs, 1996, Fresh Air radio interview by Terry Gross, npr.org http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-science-is-a-liberal-art, audio 26:30/31:05
The management philosophy here really is to give people enough rope to hang themselves. We hire people to tell us what to do. That's what we pay them for.
Steve Jobs 1982, interview in InfoWorld March 4, 1982, p.15 books.google https://books.google.fr/books?id=gT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=rope
1990s
— Paul Arden writer 1940 - 2008
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 166
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Tel Quel (1943)
— Aldo Leopold American writer and scientist 1887 - 1948
"Preface".
1930s, Game Management, 1933
— Jon Stewart American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian 1962
Stand-up performance at RIT (2005)
— Amitabh Bachchan Indian actor 1942
— Malcolm Gladwell journalist and science writer 1963
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
— Mumia Abu-Jamal Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist 1954
"Is Obama's Victory Ours?" http://www.prisonradio.org/ObamaJuneMumia.htm 06-05-08
— Dale Carnegie American writer and lecturer 1888 - 1955
Dale Carnegie, quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 69