One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
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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 themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.Whitfield Diffie
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
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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.
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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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Two people can work on a problem better than one.
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