If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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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.
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
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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.
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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.
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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
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