Michael P. Marpaung

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Religion did not arise out of the need to assure social solidarity, nor were cathedrals built to encourage tourism.
Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila