Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
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Chapter VII, p. 72Adam Smith
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorow
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.
Darl McBride
...there is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.
Jacques Ellul
Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity. You can actually dissipate a situation by giving it maximal coverage. As to alarming people, that's done by rumours, not by coverage.
Marshall McLuhan
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