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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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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."
"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
"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."
"Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much."
"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."
"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."
"If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything."
"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."
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