Two people can work on a problem better than one

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 truth is the last thing that matters, ' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.