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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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"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."
"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."
"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
"A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches."
"I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it."
"We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness."
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"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."
"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."
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
"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 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."
"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."
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