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"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
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"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."

"It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it."

"If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!"

"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."

"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"

"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."

"The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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