There’s no real separation between the real world and the Internet. What we’ve begun to see now is a militarization of that space.

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

We lost the crickets.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.