Quote by David Kahn

“For almost a thousand years, from before 500 to 1400, the cryptology of Western civilization stagnated.”

— David Kahn

“Much of the history of cryptology of this time is a patchwork, a crazy quilt of unrelated items, sprouting, flourishing, withering. Only toward the…

— David Kahn

“Modern society has subsided into a culture of deceit.”

— Steven Redhead

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“I feel that many of the problems our society is plagued with come from having access to information that is too sacred, too sensitive…

— Anna Hammond

“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might be civilized…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.”

— Jen Selinsky

“I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the…

— Monica Wood

“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”

— Oscar Wilde