Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes
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'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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I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.
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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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I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
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From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
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The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
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Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.
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I do engineering, not religion.
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I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
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In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
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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.