The decisions we make about communication security today will determine the kind of society we live in tomorrow.

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

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Fang: When do I get out of here? Max: They say a week. Fang: So, like, tomorrow? Max: That's what I'm thinking.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

It's chaotic. I have heard blood-curdling screams, and every time I hear it I think someone's being brutally murdered, but I realize it's a werewolf.

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.