If you have ambition, you ...

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
 Whitfield Diffie

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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
 Whitfield Diffie
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
 Whitfield Diffie
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.
 Whitfield Diffie