We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. – 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 dont take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. – Whitfield Diffie
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but its all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. – Whitfield Diffie
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. – John Henrik Clarke
Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson