"Cryptonomicon" Quotes
"Cryptonomicon" follows two interconnected storylines, one set during World War II and the other in the present day, as characters work on codebreaking and data encryption.
fiction | 1139 pages | Published in 1999
Quotes
It's okay, we're bankers. You can trust us.
The quality of a solution is directly proportional to the quality of the assumptions on which it is based.
Real life is physical. Give me books instead: Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book; I'd give anything for that.
The only way you can write about people is to be part of them.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the clever people never think of trying to be clever.
This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
People who share the same interests as you are, in general, more likely to value your interests than people who do not share them, no matter how close they are to you in other ways.
The most remarkable thing about the world we live in is that it is, at once, all there is, and, at the same time, everything that a person could possibly make up.
The people who are the best at being a part of a group are the people who enjoy their individuality the most.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
