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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"Unconditionally love people for what they are not what they should be."

"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."
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"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 make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files."


"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 and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work."


"Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much."


"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 about."


"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 be a mainstay of advanced communications technology."


"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."


"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."


"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 of France or New York."
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