“You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8, “Conversations in the Puzzle Palace” (p. 139)
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“You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8, “Conversations in the Puzzle Palace” (p. 139)
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Il ne faut pas s’offenser que les autres nous cachent la vérité puisque nous nous la cachons si souvent à nous-mêmes.
Maxim 11 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Akri hides from no one. He don’t need to. Anyone hurt my akri, I eat them. (Simi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil
Source: Dance with the Devil
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
George Orwell book 1984
Variant: For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
Source: 1984
“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”
Obert Skye book Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Source: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Hidden Righteousness, p. 158.
“The night that hides things from us.”
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto XXIII, line 3 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso