Quotes About Enigma

Enigma decipherments gave the locations of numerous U-boats, but it would have been unwise to attack every single one of them, because a sudden, unexplained increase in successful British attacks would suggest to Germany that its communications were being deciphered.

the numerous losses were either the result of natural misfortune or caused by a British spy who had infiltrated the German navy. The breaking of Enigma was considered impossible and inconceivable.

had the cipher machines been used properly—without repeated message keys, without cillies, without restrictions on plugboard settings and scrambler arrangements, and without stereotypical messages which resulted in cribs—it is quite possible that they might never have been broken at all.

The fate of the Polish nation had depended on Rejewski, and he did not disappoint his country. Rejewski's attack on Enigma is one of the truly great accomplishments of cryptanalysis.

Polský úspÄ›ch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán tÃ…â"¢emi faktory: strachem, matematikou a Å¡pionáží.

One of the features of the Enigma machine was its inability to encipher a letter as itself, which was a consequence of the reflector. The letter a could never be enciphered as A, the letter b could never be enciphered as B, and so on.

the inherent properties of matter start to become impossibly ambiguous.

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Mystère pour l'homme, la femme est regardée comme mystère en soi.

Dios mío! ¡Haz que existas! Haz que haya un cielo y un infierno me pasearé por los senderos del paraíso con mi hijo y con mi hija querida y ellos se retorcerán en las llamas de la envidia los miraré tostarse y gemir reiré y los niños reirán conmigo. Me debes esa revancha Dios mío. Exijo que me la des.

The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.

The beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth.

They never learned whether she was in trade, living on alimony, or possessed of a family income. Sam suspected that she was an international spy. She was a pleasant woman, and very clever. She talked about herself constantly, and never told anything whatever about herself

Thule was sighted, but only from afar.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

Who knows, Watson? Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offense might rankle. -Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

A large number merely strange

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes

What... is the wind in that door?

What is love? No one knows what love is, exactly. No one can define it. No one can prove it.

she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.