- Giving
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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have covered the secret war that Israeli and American intelligence have waged against Iran's nuclear program and Iran's assistance to jihadi movements in the Middle East, since the mid-'90s.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called A Secret Gig because where and how it's taking place won't be revealed.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
- Hater
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no big secret that I'm a QB hater.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020