The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in…

“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s”

— Jason Fagone

“a nonderanged boss,”

— Jason Fagone

“It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.”

— Jason Fagone

“the measure of a person was her ideas”

— Jason Fagone

“one condition: that she be allowed to work from home.”

— Jason Fagone

“Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that “when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain”

— Jason Fagone

“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book”

— Jason Fagone

“It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.”

— Jason Fagone

“his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.”

— Jason Fagone

“There were possibly three or at most four persons” in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes”

— Jason Fagone

“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.…

— Jason Fagone

“rejected from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,”

— Jason Fagone

“It was once remarked of a well-known Oxford scholar that, while he had no enemies, he was hated by all his friends. Something of…

— Jason Fagone

“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.”

— Jason Fagone

“the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it’s such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places”

— Jason Fagone