Daniel J. Bernstein

Mathematician

10 Quotes

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

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

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

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

I do engineering, not religion.

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

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

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

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.