Enigma Machines

Famous quotes containing the words enigma and/or machines:

“His moving impulse is no flabby yearning to teach, to expound, to make simple; it is that “obscure inner necessity” of which Conrad tells us, the irresistible creative passion of a genuine artist, standing spell-bound before the impenetrable enigma that is life, enamoured by the strange beauty that plays over its sordidness, challenged to a wondering and half-terrified sort of representation of what passes understanding.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)