“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“It is said that in death, all things become clear.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“And when you get where you’re going, you darn well better look great!”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. Every code is breakable - the Bergofsky Principle! She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“it is said that in death, all things become clear ”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that!”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Siapa yang akan mengawasi sang pengawas?”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Kto bude strážiť strážcov?”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“the NSA lived by its motto: Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“Tutto è possibile; l'impossibile richiede soltanto più tempo.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. “Fuck it,” he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“It came from the world’s first computer – the Mark 1 – a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab at Harvard University. The computer developed a glitch one day, and no one was able to locate the cause. After hours of searching, a lab assistant finally spotted the problem. It seemed a moth had landed on one of the computer’s circuit boards and shorted it out. From that moment on, computer glitches were referred to as bugs.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Digital Fortress
“To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals — rats and monkeys, for example — that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming 'depressed' in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted by some antidepressants) declines in their brains. And — what is especially relevant here — they avoid fighting even in self-defense ... My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers — the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being 'reamed out' by managers — are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, quote from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
― Kami Garcia, quote from Beautiful Chaos
“It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.”
― Alan Brennert, quote from Moloka'i
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
― Michelle Magorian, quote from Good Night, Mr. Tom
“The kiss . . . holy alien babies, the kiss was a raw combination of lust and possession.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Opposition
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