Joseph Heller
Birthdate: May 1, 1923
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Date of Death: December 12, 1999
Occupation: Author
Profile: Best known for
Catch-22.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller
Number of Quotes: 4
Most of the information we use now is obtained free ... and there is no way of knowing anymore whether the information on which we base our own
information for distribution is true or false. But that doesn't seem to matter; all that matters is that the information comes from a reputable source.
People in the company are almost never fired ... they are encouraged to retire early or are eased aside into hollow,
insignificant positions with fake functions and no authority where they are sheepish and unhappy for as long as they remain.
People in the Market Research Department ... are not expected to change reality but merely to find it if they can and
suggest ingenious ways of disguising it ... converting whole truths into half truths and half truths into whole ones.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that
were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind ... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if
he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
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