Cryptographer Quotes

John Wilkins

Frank Adcock

Phil Zimmermann

Leo Marks

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Phil Zimmermann

Everyone knows that amongst the Philosophers it is a commonplace that the monster in the body is a monster in the soul, and being a monster in the soul, what can be expected of such a person, what should become of him, if not evils and misfortune.

Giambattista della Porta

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

Epitaph:

A twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry
Predestinates the sinner and the saint.

We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat... 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.