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

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

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

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

Until God draws you to himself, can you come close to Him.

You have to understand and appreciate the value in people before you can notice those in need and be of help.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Soccer is a magical game.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.