The medium obscured the message.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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 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.
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.
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
I've never killed anyone but I've felt the emotion
Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.