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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."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Knowledge is intellectual art."
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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."
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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
"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
"One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance."
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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."
Thought
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
Ambition
"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
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
Science
"Two people can work on a problem better than one."
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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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"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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