That exchange is what makes the film infinitely better than “Six Days of the Condor,” the book on which it was based. In the book, the hidden plot that Turner stumbled on was another tired old warhorse - a member of the CIA going rogue and smuggling drugs from China. The idea that the government was wargaming apocalyptic privation scenarios instead is much more interesting, and decidedly creepier.
That’s the only instance I can think of from my personal experience where the movie adaptation was better than the novel.
This claimed quote appears to be apocryphal. I am unable to find any source for this claimed Kissinger quote other than a podcast, a Twitter post, and a customer rant on Amazon.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Apparently it wasn’t direct quote from Steve Jobs, although that’s what most searches pull up. Looks like it was a quote from Rob Siltanen, which doesn’t in any dilute the message.
The only reason to attribute the words to Steve Jobs is a misguided attempt to give them more weight/claimed value. It is intellectually dishonest.
People often misattribute “quotes” to celebrities, thinkers, philosophers, etc. hoping to give words they like legitimacy. These lying memes are all over social media.
It’s actually how things work. Change and progress for the benefit of mankind isn’t fostered by the status quo. America would never have broken free from the tyrannical chains of the British empire, had it not been for the rebels and troublemakers of the time.
Plenty of other examples in history prove this point.
Rosa Parks was a rebel who challenged the status quo.
“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
― Henry Miller