Whitfield Diffie Quotes

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• If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
• I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
• I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south…
• I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to…
• One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
• People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics…
• I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to…
• Two people can work on a problem better than one
• Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers…
• Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
• We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions
• The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
• If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take…
• I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology…
• No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.
• I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum…
• Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.
• In a sense, communications networks can be defined entirely by who has cryptographic keys, and I think a lot of networks will work that way…
• I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that…
• The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

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