Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "A Few Words on Secret Writing." Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 19, no. 1, George R. Graham, July 1841, p. 33.
The new security procedures for allowing foeign students to study in the United States caused huge delays in the process and messed up a system that had been working well for years. It didn’t occur to the Secretary that a new system might be more efficient. That was the main reason for most organzations changing their systems--to gain efficiency.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
