Quotes About Obfuscation

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—how not to do it.

Science has been abused for every conceivable purpose under the sun. Which is all the more reason to deliver the power it grants to as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible, instead of leaving it in the hands of a few. It is not a reason to retreat into fantasy – to declare: knowledge is a cultural artifact, nothing is universally true, only mysticism and obfuscation and ignorance will save us.

a circuitous way of spreading confusion without offering any information of value.

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

You can't explain collateralized debt obligation in a novel - it's too draggy.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore vehicles are carefully designed so that regulators can't identify who is using them; with the right accountants, they can be set up quickly and easily.

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

But long sentences often tend to collapse or break down or become opaque or trip over their awkwardness.

Sitting with Sindikubwabo [former President of Rwanda in exile in Zaire] as he offered what sounded like a rehearsal of the defense-by-obfuscation he was preparing for the tribunal, I had the impression that he almost yearned to be indicted, even apprehended, in order to have a final hour in the spotlight.

the best way to hide in plain sight was to get fat.

Confuse your trail, lose your trail.

Si comprender es imposible, conocer es necesario, porque lo sucedido puede volver a suceder, las conciencias pueden ser seducidas y obnubiladas de nuevo: las nuestras también

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.

I was not transparent, that she could not see straight through me

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.