Ancient Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the…

— E. J. W. Barber

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

— John Steinbeck

But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

— Erno Rubik

It was written without fear and without research.

— Dorothy Parker

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into…

— Charles Petzold

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

— Seamus Heaney

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

— Harry Seidler

“The association of magic and cryptology was reinforced by other factors. Mysterious symbols were used in such esoteric fields as astrology and alchemy—where each…

— David Kahn