Quotes About Secrecy

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Kat threw a glance over her shoulder, apparently checking to be sure they weren't being followed. When she saw nothing, she slacked her rapid pace a bit. "I've just had it up to my eyeballs with those guys. Them and their stupid feelings." "What

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released.

What we've seen in government for so often is that people have been shady - about their roles, hiding things, not releasing things.

Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

I like having my own story remain my story.

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

Years ago, when I was in school, I used to like a girl. But I didn't know if she liked me since I was something of a geek too. So, my feelings remained locked inside my heart.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.