“It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are...” — Whitfield Diffie Quote

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Two people can work on a problem better than one.

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

I want to be known as a desirable actress who can perform - that's something I strive to be.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.