70 Cipher Quotes

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Famous Cipher Quotes

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action. — Julian Assange

The destiny of money is to be encrypted. — Michael Saylor

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden

Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. — Bruce Schneier

Bitcoin is an ark of encrypted energy to escape the currency flood. — Michael Saylor

We know that with enough computer power and intelligence, the most complex of all encryptions can be decoded. — Mo Gawdat

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem. — Jacob Appelbaum

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption. — Dorothy Denning

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about — Whitfield Diffie

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. — Bruce Schneier

Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. — Nick Szabo

Short Cipher Quotes

  • A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man. — Frederic Chopin
  • Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man — Thomas Carlyle
  • You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author — Frances Ridley Havergal
  • Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. — J. L. B. Smith
  • Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits. — Horace
  • A man can't retire his experience. — Bernard Baruch
  • Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. — Francis Bacon
  • I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face! — George Eliot

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More Cipher Quotes

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man. — Frederic Chopin

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps. — Alexander Grothendieck

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition. — B. R. Ambedkar

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead. — J. Cole

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets. — Steven Pinker

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. — Bernard Baruch

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher. — Oscar Wilde

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ." — Ambrose Bierce

It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself — Chuck Missler

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two. — John Frederick Boyes

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. — Bill W.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult. — Margaret Thatcher

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. — Alberto Manguel

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity. — Abraham Lincoln

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. — Abraham Lincoln

It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it. — Davy Crockett

Sometimes you start flowing and shits starts adding on to whatever cipher you're dealing with. Meanwhile you got all of these thoughts in your head and you don't get enough time to put them down. That's another reason I started writing from the last word to the front word. It's methods to the madness. Sometimes I can't understand it or explain it but it is what it is. — Rakim

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists. — John Pilger

All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers. — H. L. Mencken

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. — Carl Sandburg

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age. — Francis Bacon

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. — Carl Sandburg

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time has an undertaking establishment on every block and drives his coffin nails faster than the steam riveters rivet or the stenographers type or the tickers tick out fours and eights and dollar signs and ciphers. — John Dos Passos

Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing. — Laura Riding

It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues. — Jeremy Denk

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin

I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward. — Walt Whitman

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. — Oliver Goldsmith

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest. — Samuel Johnson

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory. — Ludwig von Mises

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