"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files."

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Source : Bruce Schneier (1996). “Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C”, John Wiley & Sons Inc

Bruce Schneier

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“I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.”
“There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.”
“Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.”

Source : "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.
“When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.”

Source : "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.
“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books
“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”
“If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to oneâ€™s existence, if one does not use the mind to itâ€™s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”

Source : Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.16, National Geographic Books
“Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of expertsâ€”and that is a very good thing.”

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