Believe Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

— Edgar Allan Poe

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

— Frances Ridley Havergal

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“one of the essential elements of cryptography: a deliberate transformation of the writing.”

— David Kahn

“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to…

— David Kahn

“In the 1970s and 1980s, though, mathematicians at Stanford and MIT made a series of breakthroughs that made it possible, for the first time,…

— Nathaniel Popper

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most…

— Joseph Glanvill

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to…

— Galileo Galilei

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices,…

— C.S. Friedman

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image"…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan