Quotes About Secrecy

there have been credible reports that researchers have already developed a self-aware computer in secrecy.

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

Do not, as long as you live, ever again allow your real name to be coupled with your home address.

Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

Not all things that cast man shadows were men.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

in 1955 the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread; they got their data, and twelve innocent civilians died.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.

Magic, after all, is no more than the product of knowledge others don't share.

Do things in your own time. Everybody should like how they choose. We never know what goes behind the blinds.

Everything concealed will be revealed.

I hid you from them, you know, she said—like she was looking into my head finally. Seeing something there. That's how you got here. They were hella good Catholics back then, but you would have been dust. From who?

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.

The borderlines of the secrecy world, the distance between what is hidden and the public's right to know, was shifting quickly. 'We live in a time of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and fast internet connections that transcend national boundaries,' the anonymous leaker wrote. 'It doesn't take much to connect the dots: from start to finish, inception to global media distribution, the next revolution will be digitized.

Secrecy laws and incomplete information hog-tied journalists who tried to expose offshore wrongdoing. Lawsuits and public ridicule frequently followed publication. A partial picture allowed critics to dismiss findings as anomalies rather than patterns.

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus.

Each of us—on the outside, in front of others—dresses in dignity, but inside himself he is well aware of these unconfessable things that pass through the secrecy of his heart.

They signed in as Mr. P. Villa and Mrs. S. Hayek.

Padre,' Tomás replied, 'my only confession is that I do not believe in confession.

y es que el amor pues como que es una cosa de dos personas o más si se quiere pero que no debe salir de esas dos o tres o seis personas porque a nadie le puede interesar a nadie le debe interesar ¿verdad? lo que esas personas hagan con sus vidas privadas