Obscurity

Obscurity may refer to:

  • Security through obscurity, a controversial principle in security engineering which attempts to use secrecy to provide security
  • Obscurity (band), German melodic metal band

Famous quotes containing the word obscurity:

    “The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    “Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)