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 Politics
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. -Whitfield Diffie Computers
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 Technology
