“How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.” IfsKnowsHas BeensHandsReadingTeamCryMessagesLettersCodeInterpretationOutlinesCrackedSullenSubstitution Book:World Within The Word Source: World Within The Word
“Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.” WritingReadingHistoryModernMilitaryMessagesAncientCodeLiteracyMisleadUncommon Author:E. J. W. Barber
“When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages. I would record TV commercials with SoundRecorder.exe on Windows 95 and reverse them to see if I was being subliminally influenced to watch Pokémon by Japanese spies.” IfsYearsSecretWatchesRecordsTvsMessagesWindowCodeObsessedConspiracyReverseSpyTv Commercial Author:Alex Hirsch
“Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.” IfsSoulHandsMightSadnessFieldsMastersMessagesSurvivalSingingMusicalYour SoulCodeWarningDeliveringBeing Sad Author:B. B. King
“You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.” KnowsWantShouldLittlesSpeakOur LivesLove YouMessagesCodeOrigamiPrison Break Author:Michael Scofield
“The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.” WayMadeBookSchoolFoundChurchMoralAliveMessagesCodeMoral Code Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.” DreamAbleRememberExampleKeysMessagesMethodCodeManifestWakingAssociation Author:Erich Fromm
“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?” LittlesEarthPastLanguageSecretRecordsHappenedBrokenMessagesUnderstoodAncientCodeMudLava Book:Weight Source: Weight
“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.” WritingHeartPlayUseBodyHandsNamesStrongBloodTaughtMy HeartMetsMessagesBeatsSkinsMarkFingersActiveShouldersBlockRhythmCodeIronPaceSteadyBrandingInterferePrintingPadsHeart BeatDrummingMorse CodeBefore I Met You Author:Jeanette Winterson
“As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.” ThinkingLongLastsUsedVoiceSilenceKnownBreakPiecesSkyMomDadMessagesLettersBlueCodeStringsFuneralVioletBeadsBraceletMorse CodeMaroon Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel