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.

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.

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

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

Beauty and Money will get you a relationship, but not love. Listening, caring and being there will get you Love.

There is no better designer than nature.

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Gratitude puts everything into perspective.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

Every cell in us worships God.