“It was more important to be honest. “We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous terms, until our very moral senses are dulled,” she wrote. “Let things be shown, let them come forth… — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that “when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
“There were possibly three or at most four persons” in the whole United States who knew the slightest thing about codes” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share
