All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill … - Neal Stephenson

I was happy to avoid them. They wore the uniform of the teen nonconformist: long hair, unsuccessful mustache, black leather.

<nowiki>[Luisa]</nowiki> knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.

Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.