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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
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"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."
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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."
"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."
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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."
"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."
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