I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

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 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.

I have been working on two problems for three years: one of them for 8 or 9 years, and one of them for 3, 4, 5 years.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

The lessons you learn when you are knocked down will sustain you when you are up!

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

I love the sport and being competitive.