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Quotes About Decipher

There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.
~ Christa Faust
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
~ Anthony Minghella
Breakable codes and findable clues. Everything had been done on purpose.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Love does not obey anyone and will betray those who try to decipher its mystery.
~ Paulo Coelho
I knew I was supposed to understand that Rita was actually saying something very specific, that her pauses and stutters added up to a great and marvelous thing that a human male would intuitively grasp. But I had not a single clue as to what it might be, nor how to figure it out. Should I count the breaths? Time the pauses and convert the numbers to Bible verses to arrive at the secret code? What was she trying to tell me? And why, for that matter, was she trying to tell me anything at all?
~ Jeff Lindsay
It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours.
~ David Sedaris
he ended his short note with a riddle: v. n. A. 1. de A. o. na. v. e. r. Historians have found it hard enough to transcribe the letters accurately, let alone to understand them. And full interpretation remains elusive.
~ David Starkey
I decipher the brewing machine because I am, after all, trained to save lives, and this is a life-or-death situation. We need coffee. Now. Or heads will roll.
~ Unknown
Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian's writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.
~ Richelle Mead
Even the actual printing of the final draft fell to her, as her dat doubted that anyone could decipher his herky-jerky farmer's hand. When she had finished, he signed it.
~ Unknown
7-14-12-4-14-5-19-7-4-2-17-8-2-10-4-19-12-0-18-19-4-17 Coke looked at the numbers and
~ Dan Gutman
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
~ Jerry Saltz
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
~ John Crowley
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who's leaping up and down on a bed.
~ John Irving
Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.
~ Marcel Proust
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
~ Margaret Atwood
It is my job as an investigative psychologist to try to decipher the serial killer's particular fantasy from his crime scene. The fantasy will point to the fixation which will give us a key to understanding the killer we are investigating. The better we understand him, the more likely we are to catch him.
~ Unknown
Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
~ Neal Stephenson
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
~ Octavia E. Butler