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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
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump has exposed the dirty secret of drug pricing: There is a shadowy third player in the transaction between patients and their pharmacists: middlemen who have taken a big kickback from the drug manufacturer, which may or may not be reflected in patients' out-of-pocket costs.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't manage a secret.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020