O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take me almost until eleven o'clock.
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.
Even a chameleon needs the proper amount of suction.
