Chris House

“The NSA is the definitive rogue agency: empowered to do whatever it wants with very little control, transparency, or accountability.”
― Anonymous

“There are things more important,” he told me, “than getting reelected.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

“the women used these Enigma messages—along with files on individual U-boats and their commanders—to track, with pins, every U-boat and convoy whose location was known. At another desk, several other Goucher women, including Jacqueline Jenkins (later the mother of Bill Nye, aka Bill Nye the Science Guy), tracked “neutral shipping” based on daily position reports.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II