
"When I was a boy, I was one of six in my family. You are trying, through a unifying influence, to build that row of dominoes so they can stand the fall of one, if necessary." When, each standing alone, one falls, it has the effect on the next, and finally the whole row is down. "Well, it is very important, and the great idea of setting up an organism is so as to defeat the domino result. The President's News Conference of 5/12/54 "There is an old saw in the services: that which is not inspected deteriorates." Remarks Upon Receiving America's Democratic Legacy Award at a B'nai B'rith Dinner in Honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League, 11/23/53 If you met him face to face and took the same risks he did, you could get away with almost anything, as long as the bullet was in the front." You could not sneak up on him from behind, or do any damage to him, without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizenry.

It was: meet anyone face to face with whom you disagree.

Now that town had a code, and I was raised as a boy to prize that code. If you don't know anything about him, read your Westerns more. We had as our marshal for a long time a man named Wild Bill Hickok. "I was raised in a little town of which most of you have never heard. It was: always take your job seriously, never yourself."Īddress at the New England "Forward to '54" Dinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 9/21/53 "Thank goodness, many years ago, I had a preceptor, for whom my admiration has never died, and he had a favorite saying, one that I trust I try to live by. "There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly." "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." "For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Inaugural Address, Washington, DC, 1/20/53

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Homecoming Speech, Abilene, Kansas, 6/22/45 In Animal Farm, the pigs such as Squealer and Snowball use obfuscation to confuse the other animals with doublespeak in order to prevent any uprisings."The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.".In network security, obfuscation refers to methods used to obscure an attack payload from inspection by network protection systems. In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration reported in July 2018 a total of 353 different code words used for cannabis. A common spoken example is " 420", used as a code word for cannabis, a drug which, despite some recent prominent decriminalization changes, remains illegal in most places. Within the illegal drug trade, obfuscation is commonly used in communication to hide the occurrence of drug trafficking. "faculty of engineering" refers to a target, The Pentagon."faculty of fine arts" refers to a target, the White House."faculty of urban planning" refers to a target, the World Trade Center."faculty of law" refers to a target, the United States Capitol."19 confirmations" refers to the Hijackers in the September 11 attacks."semester" refers to planned September 11 attacks.In this obfuscated message, the following code words are believed to exist: Īn earlier similar phrase appears in Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, where he lists rule fourteen of good writing as "eschew surplusage". The phrase has appeared in print at least as early as 1959, when it was used as a section heading in a NASA document. Literally, the phrase means "avoid being unclear" or "avoid being unclear, support being clear", but the use of relatively uncommon words causes confusion in much of the audience (those lacking the vocabulary), making the statement an example of irony, and more precisely a heterological phrase. "Eschew obfuscation", also stated as "eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation", is a humorous fumblerule used by English teachers and professors when lecturing about proper writing techniques. Skinner said that medical notation is a form of multiple audience control, which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which the patient might oppose if they could understand medical jargon.

Doctors are faulted for using jargon to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient the American author and physician Michael Crichton said that medical writing is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader".
