Cryptographer
Quotes & Thinkers in Cryptographer
10 thinkers456 quotes
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
Country:
⏳Era:
Sort:
Notable Thinkers
10 of 10🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson
Politics
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law]."
352 quotes
🇬🇧Alan Turing
Science
1912–1954
"In this paper I deal only with automatic machines, and will therefore often omit the prefix ɑ-."
33 quotes

🇺🇸William Binney
Politics
b. 1943
"No online cipher is safe, simply because if they don't have the key they'll come across and get it from you. Assuming they didn't already implant it in the system"
10 quotes

🇺🇸Bruce Schneier
Literature
b. 1963
"Against the average user, anything works; there's no need for complex security software. Against the skilled attacker, on the other hand, nothing works."
20 quotes
🇮🇳Subhash Kak
Science
b. 1947
"History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination."
30 quotes

🇬🇧Charles Wheatstone
Science
1802–1875
"I have also rendered the phonic molecular vibrations visible, when produced by the longitudinal oscillations of a column of air ..."
2 quotes

🇺🇸Claude Elwood Shannon
Mathematics
1916–2001
"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers."
3 quotes

🇺🇸Ralph Merkle
Technology
b. 1952
1 quotes
🇺🇸Phil Zimmermann
Science
b. 1954
"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
2 quotes
🇬🇧I. J. Good
Mathematics
1916–2009
"There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally."
3 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775); Jefferson composed the first draft of this document, but the final work was done by John Dickinson, working with his original draft. Full text online"
— Thomas JeffersonView →
"In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
— Thomas JeffersonView →
"A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written."
— Thomas JeffersonView →
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
— Thomas JeffersonView →
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
— Thomas JeffersonView →