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“Cryptography… what’s that?”   “It’s the study of codes and ciphers, writing, and solving them. I’ve always loved that stuff. Remember those decoder rings in the cereal boxes? I used to make my mom buy box after box just so I could collect ...more
J. L. Friday
Yes, more YA books that use cryptography elements, please. I don't even mind that you ELI5.
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Julian Barnes
“Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain, I think. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.”
Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

Adrienne Maree Brown
“We are in an imagination battle.

Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of Black people, are rarely held accountable.

Imagination has people thinking they can go from being poor to a millionaire as part of a shared American dream. Imagination turns Brown bombers into terrorists and white bombers into mentally ill victims. Imagination gives us borders, gives us superiority, gives us race as an indicator of ability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's capability. I often feel I am trapped inside someone' else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Donella H. Meadows
“An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation.”
Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows
“If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.”
Donella H. Meadows, Thinking In Systems: A Primer

J.R.R. Tolkien
“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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