Jill Scott

I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.

American Musician

Abraham Lincoln

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

American President

Queen Latifah

I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

Steven Pinker

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Canadian Scientist

William Godwin

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

English Writer

Bernard Baruch

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

American Businessman

Dan Brown

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

American Author

Usher

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

Nicolas Roeg

I like women in film. I like women in general, but I especially like to show them on film. They are not ciphers.

English Director

Tony Todd

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

American Actor

Understand that 'cipher' in this context relates to keeping information secret through encoding.

Cryptography Basics

'Cipher' also references historical methods of secret writing used before the digital age.

Historical Encryption

In stories and history, 'breaking a cipher' refers to decoding someone else's secret messages.

Breaking Codes

'Cipher' metaphorically refers to someone seen as insignificant or without influence.

Metaphorical Use

This use of 'cipher' often implies a person is undervalued or overlooked in a group.

Negative Nuance

In mathematics, 'cipher' means zero, which holds places in numbers but has no value alone.

Mathematical Placeholder

'Cipher' as zero can also signify the start of counting in certain coding systems.

Zero Notation

Historically, 'cipher' referred to the act of calculating numbers, now usually termed 'computing'.

Arithmetic Process

As a verb, 'cipher' emphasizes the act of transforming information to protect it.

Secure Communication

The verb 'cipher' remains relevant in tech, especially when discussing cybersecurity.

Modern Relevance

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 every semester that I teach pre-service and in-service educators on topics ranging from diversity to racial justice to literacy acquisition in urban schools I make sure to include a unit on the art of the cipher but those who don't know

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