Quotes About Obfuscation

#1. Obfuscation is the deliberate addition of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection.

Finn Brunton

#2. I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Jeff Weiner

#3. Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

Nick Turse

#4. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.

Anis Shivani

#5. It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

Robert Ludlum

#6. Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith ...

Anton Szandor LaVey

#7. In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.

Carrie Vaughn

#8. The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Julian Baggini

#9. That's what bitter people did. Pointed the finger and blamed others. Obfuscation was a way of hiding from their own shortcomings and wounds.

Rachel Hauck

#10. Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#11. I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

David Rakoff

#12. Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

Catherine Austin Fitts

#13. On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

Andy Serkis

#14. Just a huge credit goes to the GM Goodwrench team and all my teammates that went before me. It's been a good weekend for us so far and hopefully we can put it all together tomorrow night.

Kevin Harvick

#15. The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#16. It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

John Norman

#17. You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context!

Dan Barker

#18. Like I said before, the truest part of a person is always the ugliest. But I'm ugly too, so you're not alone.

E.K. Blair

#19. Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#20. After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn't know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!

Robin Williams

#21. I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

Marion Roach

#22. That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.

George Mason

#23. If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Seneca The Younger

#24. doing with the puzzled

Douglas Adams

#25. If you're defending a lie, you can only defend it with obfuscations and other lies. You can't defend a lie with the truth.

Harvey Bialy

#26. Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

Matthea Harvey