Quotes from Jason Fagone

It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of the same kind would express the feelings towards the FBI of its fellow U.S. agencies.

His car, he envisioned, would be almost completely recyclable, the death of one car giving birth to part of another in an endless cycle, a concept known as "cradle-to-grave sustainability.

To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.

If you would like to imagine the birth of the mighty National Security Agency, please visualize two men in a small room, one with a pug nose, pecking at a typewriter, the other a dandy in a suit and bow tie, smoking a pipe, wondering what his wife was up to at home, and if she was missing him.

America First," a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

For the first eight months of the war, as incredible as it sounds, William and Elizebeth, and their team at Riverbank, did all of the codebreaking for every part of the U.S. government: for the State Department, the War Department (army), the navy, and the Department of Justice.

Cryptographers are professional paranoids

a nonderanged boss

the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.

Codebreakers train themselves to see more deeply.

William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book

There were possibly three or at most four persons" in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes

It was anti-Nazi Google.

the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it's such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places