“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
