Quotes About Enigma

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

Wondering is a positive madness.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

My mind works in mysterious ways

it's really make sense when it's does not make sense

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.

Even the littlest things were now a challenge, one I didn't understand.

Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved.

The problem is solvable puzzle.

Ultimately, the greatest mystery cannot be seen or spoken, it is beyond the grasp of the intellect and all symbolic representation.

The gardenia is an enigma, its petals dusted with the creamy white purity of innocence, but its aroma is wildly seductive. How appropriate; for in the language of flowers, the gift of gardenias conveys the message of secret love. —DB

into some odd business concerning Gilbert Forrest.

and my professional idol Vanessa Redgrave. There is a quality about Vanessa that makes me feel as if she resides in a nether-world of mystery that eludes the rest of us mortals. Her voice seems to come from some deep place that knows all suffering and all secrets. Watching her work is like seeing through layers of glass, each layer painted in mythic watercolor images, layer after layer, until it becomes dark—but even then you know you haven't come to the bottom of it.

Even Tidewater's computer gurus hadn't been able to trace the origin of his messages.

A puzzle is something you figure out and you're done with—a crossword, sudoku, a Rubik's cube. A mystery is more like the face of someone you love. The more you know, the more there is to be known, and the more you want to know. ... a mystery has no bottom.

But the FBI didn't intercept the messages. It didn't monitor the Nazi circuits. It didn't break the codes. It didn't solve any Enigma machines. The coast guard did this stuff—the little codebreaking team that Elizebeth created from nothing.

The common saying about cryptologists, as William phrased it, was that "it is not necessary" to be insane, "but it helps.

To those who had a chance to watch them both work, the minds of William and Elizebeth appeared equally amazing and equally incomprehensible. Their brains were Easter Island statues, stony and imposing.

William concluded that Germany had never lost faith in the security of the Enigma machine. They thought Enigma was unbreakable all the way to the end. He was proud to learn that Nazi codebreakers had never managed to defeat America's best cipher machine, the SIGABA, which he had invented with Frank Rowlett.