Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes

United States, Mathematician
October 29, 1971

Daniel Julius Bernstein is a German-American mathematician, cryptologist, and programmer. He is a Personal professor ("Persoonlijk hoogleraar") in the department of mathematics and computer science at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, as well as a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Also known as Programmer

'Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking 'How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?' Occasionally the answer is 'Not much,' so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.' 1

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- Up
- Good
- Perfect
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

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I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.

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- Work
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

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- Long
I do engineering, not religion.

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- Engineering
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

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- Work
- Important
- Help
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

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- Perspective
In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

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Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

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I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

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- World
- Good
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

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- God