The Woman Who Smashed Codes

by Jason Fagone

It’s not quite true that history is written by the winners. It’s written by the best publicists on the winning team.

To operate at the highest level of the field seemed to require the kind of pitiless attention and focus that turned some otherwise pleasant and well-adjusted people into zombies who stumbled down the stairs.

Truth was truth and anything else was fuckery.

Elizebeth, of course, didn’t think she was a genius; actual geniuses never do.

“The sooner we realize that we are all God’s children regardless of color, race, creed, nationality, etc., the better for all nations and the world as a whole.”

“It is our responsibility—ours, the living—to see to it that this victory shall be a monument worthy of the dead who died to win it.” She agreed that there was no point in having fought a war to preserve freedom if people used that freedom to start more wars.