One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. - Whitfield Diffie
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
- Whitfield Diffie
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 t… - Whitfield Diffie
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 t…
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable. - Whitfield Diffie
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
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 mains… - Whitfield Diffie
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 mains…
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take… - Whitfield Diffie
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take…
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write p… - Whitfield Diffie
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write p…
Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people. - Whitfield Diffie
Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.
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 Yor… - Whitfield Diffie
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 Yor…
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take … - Whitfield Diffie
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take …
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