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In that sense, the quest for intelligence took on at its worst an almost mythic form, with the spies not so much required to report the truth about the enemy as paint him in a form monstrous enough to keep the alarm bells ringing for all
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“His name was Marmaduke Jopley, and he was an offence to creation.”
― The 39 Steps
― The 39 Steps
“His favorite book was A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates,”
― Same Bed Different Dreams
― Same Bed Different Dreams
“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“that is a basic computational truth that very few people are aware of, and that Turing proved mathematically: there is simply no form of knowing what a particular string of code will do unless you run it. You cannot know by looking at it.”
― The MANIAC
― The MANIAC
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