Quote by Whitfield Diffie
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptograph

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

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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

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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 dont take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. – Whitfield Diffie

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Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. – Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. – Carrie P. Snow

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Second, were spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. Were spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. – Jay Chiat

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You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry Im in, its all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, its all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, its all technology. – will.i.am

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