In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.

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Those 1, 679 zeros and ones carried hidden meaning for any intelligent species who noticed that 1, 679 is the product of two prime numbers, 73 and 23.

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There is no symbolism in my work, no hidden meaning.

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What this new, evidence based, understanding of the unconscious mind tells us Leonard Mlodinow argues is that there's no hidden meaning or emotional value attached to the subliminal processing that goes on in the brain.

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But these numbers are often under-reported and victims are usually hidden in the shadows, meaning that real, concrete statistics are often elusive.

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