Bruce Schneier Quotes
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
Quotes to Explore
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.
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I think to love bravely is the best and accept – as much as one can bear.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
