“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.” — Jason Fagone Character Copy Share Image
“The president of Harvard changed admissions rules to keep Jews out” — Jason Fagone Judaism Copy Share Image
“William made his own children sign a checkout slip if they wanted to carry a book” — Jason Fagone Books Copy Share Image
“his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.” — Jason Fagone Parenting Copy Share Image
“making yourself understood to another person is essentially a problem of cryptology.” — 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… — Jason Fagone Master Rules 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 Programming 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 Tesla 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 History Copy Share Image
“the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it’s such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places” — Jason Fagone Unexpected places Copy Share Image
“America First,” a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s” — Jason Fagone Ku klux klan 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.… — Jason Fagone Enemies Hated 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… — Jason Fagone Science Copy Share Image
“It was more important to be honest. “We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous… — Jason Fagone Moral Senses Copy Share Image
“No code is ever completely solved, you know. —ELIZEBETH S. FRIEDMAN” — Jason Fagone Code Copy Share Image
“His nervous collapse was an “anxiety reaction” sparked by “prolonged overwork” — Jason Fagone Anxiety Copy Share Image
“the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.” — Jason Fagone Fitness Copy Share Image
“a quote from Henry Ford: “THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH… — Jason Fagone Psychology Copy Share Image
“(Today a car is probably the most highly regulated product you can buy outside of a prescription drug, its every nook and… — Jason Fagone Programming Copy Share Image
“So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating… — Jason Fagone J edgar hoover Copy Share Image
“Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“His car, he envisioned, would be almost completely recyclable, the death of one car giving birth to part of another in an… — Jason Fagone Giving birth Copy Share Image
“Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“If you would like to imagine the birth of the mighty National Security Agency, please visualize two men in a small room,… — Jason Fagone Agency Copy Share Image
