Agnes Meyer Driscoll Quotes

United States, Cryptographer
July 24, 1889 – September, 16, 1971.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll, known as Miss Aggie or Madame X, was an American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst".

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

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- Creative
- Living
- Tension
We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

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- Deep
- Roots
- Fortunate
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll
We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

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- Live
- Think
- Democracy
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

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- Truth
- Ideal
- Attained
What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll
- Work
- Home
- Parents
The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.

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- Children
- Chaos
- Victims