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- Nov 07, 2020
Secret Quotes
On secrets, privacy, and what people choose to keep hidden.
One notable quote here argues that real security software should never depend on keeping its code secret in the first place - a point still debated in tech circles. See also Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
- Physical
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
- Exaltation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020