Wisdom in fragments

I still believe that nuclear is the greatest risk we face as a society today.

Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

The American general felt that if we confronted the Russians with a determined show of force, they would probably back down. And you know what? He was probably right; but what does probably mean? If it's 90% then there was a 10% chance he was wrong.

Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

At first, the 100 thousand million, million keys you would need to search might appear impossible, but Moore's law was increasing processing power and we quickly figured that if you could search a million keys per second on a chip, and you bought a million chips, you could search a million, million keys per second.

Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

I realised that what people do is, instead of figuring out the right thing to do and then doing it whether they want to or not, doing the ethical thing, what they do is they figure out what they want to do and then come up with the rationalisation for doing it, whether it's right or wrong. And we fool ourselves.

Co-inventor of Public-Key Cryptography & Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

They had a philosophy that we are not here to accumulate, but rather to provide a service to the world- to live a life of service- a service which included education.

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

MIT was one of the places where molecular biology was born, and I could participate in this enterprise with my own hands.

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

I went from having no parents, to having 65! For kids, it was fantastic, there were lots of activities, a very strong community, and everyone cared for each other.

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

My Mom never recovered psychologically from being in the concentration camp; so, my aunt and uncle inherited me. They received this 'animal' with no social upbringing and turned me into a human being.

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

I didn't have a childhood- I didn't play- every day was about survival. I was always moving to a different-place on a weekly/monthly basis. Since the only food I had was stolen, your presence was soon known by the local shopkeeper and they would make things miserable for you often calling the local police.

Nobel Prize Winner for Gene Targeting in Mice

Our vision statement was about elevating the world from a place of mediocrity to greatness.

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

There's a great quote that is 'political correctness is tyranny with manners'.

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

I started from a position of giving, without expectation of return. I also decided that I only wanted to work with people who I loved to work with.

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

Our number one instinct is survival, followed by reproduction. People started to realise that if they took care of themselves, they would live longer, have better sex and have healthier children.

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

My fun statement is that if I see the same thing, three times in one week, from disparate news or information sources, I have to move quickly as it's a trend that's likely to happen.

Founder of Lululemon Athletica, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist

The people who started working at Chobani... the minute they had a job, the minute they started working, that's when they lost the sense of being a refugee and became part of the community. That was the moment they started to regain their dignity and became independent.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company

I give all of you permission whereby, if I change the way I behave, my beliefs, the way we are going, I give you permission to hit me in my face, you need to bring me back to reality.

Founder and CEO of Chobani Greek Yogurt Company