Daniel J. Bernstein quotes

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate. (Daniel J. Bernstein)
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
I do engineering, not religion. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
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. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
The great thing about attackers is that there are so many to choose from! View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
I often see people saying 'Nobody has produced an invulnerable software system; therefore, nobody will ever produce an invulnerable software system.'"By the same bogus reasoning, nobody will ever reach Mars; nobody will ever find MD5 collisions; nobody will ever cure cancer; nobody will ever prove the Poincare conjecture; nobody will ever clone a human; nobody will ever build a 1GHz CPU; nobody will ever find SHA-1 collisions; nobody will ever break the sound barrier; etc. (Daniel J. Bernstein)
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein
"So it's tempting to incorporate a smaller resolver library into qmail. [...] I'd no longer be able to blame the BIND authors and vendors for the fact that attackers can easily use DNS to steal mail." [From the file "THOUGHTS" of the qmail distribution]. View quote
Daniel J. Bernstein

Daniel J. Bernstein

Daniel J. Bernstein - Image
Photo: Alexander Klink, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Mathematician
Born: October 29, 1971
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Daniel J. Bernstein

Related authors

Bruce Schneier - thumbnail
Bruce Schneier  40 
American Scientist
Stanley Fish  26 
American Writer
Bill Ayers - thumbnail
Bill Ayers  28 
American Activist
Carl Pomerance  2 
 
Trip Hawkins - thumbnail
Trip Hawkins  25 
American Businessman
Whitfield Diffie - thumbnail
Whitfield Diffie  12 
American Scientist
Paul Vixie - thumbnail
Paul Vixie  13 
American Writer
Theo de Raadt - thumbnail
Theo de Raadt  28 
South African Scientist