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"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."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
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"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
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"Quite amazing, isn't it, Mister Lipwig?' he said cheerfully through the smoke. 'Though isn't it a pity that they can only run on rails? I can't imagine what the world would be like if everyone had their own steam locomotive. Abominable."
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"When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."
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"I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."
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"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance."
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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."
Love
"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."
People
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
Ambition
"Two people can work on a problem better than one."
Work
"Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much."
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"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."
Technology
"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."
Thought
"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."
Death
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
Science
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