Dan Brown

Digital Fortress

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  • lukatrbovichas quoted5 years ago
    ommander Strathmore, the fifty-six-year-old deputy director of operations, was like a father to Susan. He was the one who'd hired her, and he was the one who'd made the NSA her home. When Susan joined the NSA over a decade ago, Strathmore was heading the Crypto Development Division-a training ground for new cryptographers-new male cryptographers. Although Strathmore never tolerated the hazing of anyone, he was especially prot
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    in death, all things become clear
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    The secret behind "without wax" was too sweet. Its origins were ancient. During the Renaissance, Spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with cera-"wax." A statue that had no flaws and required no patching was hailed as a "sculpture sincera" or a "sculpture without wax." The phrase eventually came to mean anything honest or true. The English word "sincere" evolved from the Spanish sincera-"without wax
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    Uranium's natural, plutonium's man-made
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    What the fuck do I care if TRANSLTR blows
  • Sevinj Huseynovahas quoted6 years ago
    The bells atop the Giralda cried out for sunrise mass.
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    Just for a few minutes, he thought.
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    Susan had always thought the term "bug" had an amusing origin:
    It came from the world's first computer-the Mark 1-a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab at Harvard University. The computer developed a glitch one day, and no one was able to locate the cause. After hours of searching, a lab assistant finally spotted the problem. It seemed a moth had landed on one of the computer's circuit boards and shorted it out. From that moment on, computer glitches were referred to as bugs
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    In this digital age, privacy had become a thing of the past
  • Soundhas quoted6 years ago
    May I speak to you a moment
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