Programming Quote by David Kahn

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

— Bruce Schneier

“The task of the cryptanalysts consisted primarily of reconstructing the wiring and switches of the coding wheels—a task made more burdensome by the daily…

— David Kahn

“In the 1970s and 1980s, though, mathematicians at Stanford and MIT made a series of breakthroughs that made it possible, for the first time,…

— Nathaniel Popper

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I tried all the basic approaches,” he said. “Including the one those teachers used to crack the cipher he sent to the papers. No…

— Christa Faust

“Gary’s seemingly random, circuitous method actually has an underlying logic. But this test-and-learn approach flies in the face of the more traditional method, the”

— Herminia Ibarra

“General Joseph O. Mauborgne, who became Chief Signal Officer in October, 1937. Mauborgne had long been interested in cryptology. In 1914, as a young…

— David Kahn

Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving.

— Heather Brooke

We claim to know the secrets, the answers have been found, but how can one fool make another wise?

— Kansas

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that…

— Mark Zuckerberg

“An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look…

— Steve McConnell