There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.
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Related China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There&... NAVAL RAVIKANT For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But... ADAM DRAPER Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about go... GAVIN ANDRESEN It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit B... NAVAL RAVIKANT The number of industries, communities, habits, traditions, and even interpersonal interactions that ... ERIK VOORHEES What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globall... ADAM DRAPER We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enth... BARRY SILBERT With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that. CAMERON WINKLEVOSS We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad. BALAJI SRINIVASAN There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to ... OLAF CARLSON-WEE I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating t... OLAF CARLSON-WEE Make no mistake - Ethereum would never have existed without Bitcoin as a forerunner. That said, I th... FRED EHRSAM Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it'... ERIK VOORHEES Virtual currency, where it's called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that's going to be stopped.... JAMIE DIMON You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a moneta... BARRY SILBERT Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good wa... BILL GATES We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. I... PATRICK M. BYRNE I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic. PATRICK M. BYRNE For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is... PATRICK M. BYRNE Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also ... ERIK VOORHEES Bitcoin is two things which share a name. One, it's a payment system, and two, it's a curren... ERIK VOORHEES Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is alread... FRED EHRSAM I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin. GAVIN ANDRESEN A token like ethereum has gone up 10 times faster than bitcoin, and it's fueling an ICO bubble n... TONE VAYS That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has... BARRY SILBERT It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that wo... NAVAL RAVIKANT The scripting language in Bitcoin is important because it is what makes Bitcoin 'programmable mo... FRED EHRSAM Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection. DAN KAMINSKY As things stand, there is no consistent evidence that there is an increased risk of cancer associate... BRUCE ARMSTRONG There are an enormous number of tests and pieces that have to be completed before a school system ca... JAN LANTZ I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tel... ADAM DRAPER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. PETER DRUCKER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the
job. UNKNOWN There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. PETER F. DRUCKER The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall... PATRICK M. BYRNE Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something th... BALAJI S. SRINIVASAN While it's not obvious to people now, in the long-run, the permissionless innovation that Bitcoi... NICK TOMAINO Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, b... BARRY SILBERT My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all. FRANK MCCOURT MaxCoin is competing for the crypto buck, if you will. So is Bitcoin, so is Dogecoin. Alt-coins are ... MAX KEISER I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He want... RAINN WILSON Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to ... RICHARD SIMMONS The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number th... EULA BISS The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be... DAN KAMINSKY It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby... EMILY PROCTER There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ... GAVIN ANDRESEN The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It... BARRY SILBERT People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of... ALAN GREENSPAN Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's... OLAF CARLSON-WEE And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti... HAMILTON JORDAN The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying curren... ADAM DRAPER There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes. BOBBY RAHAL There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. MERYL STREEP When the actual Bitcoin network launched in 2009, no one knew about it, and many of those who did th... FRED EHRSAM If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of pe... JIM HENSON Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of soci... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as ... ADAM DRAPER Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an e... ROBERT GOTTLIEB Bitcoin is just one example of something that uses a blockchain. MELANIE SWAN When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a... BRANDON BOYD In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You coul... GAVIN ANDRESEN Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earni... BALAJI SRINIVASAN There's this huge number of desperate people. LLOYD ALEXANDER Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just develop... BARRY SILBERT I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.' ADAM DRAPER Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than ... ROGER VER We estimate that the number of failed/partial downloads are low because we have a tiny application, ... TOR ODLAND Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; lik... NAVAL RAVIKANT Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swis... NAVAL RAVIKANT There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for ... ANG LEE There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there rela... LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and beco... GAVIN ANDRESEN I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need ... TESSANNE CHIN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I've talked to a number of them, and they think that's something we ought to give consideration to. ... BOB MCNAIR There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at ... DOUGLAS LEONE Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred wit... GARRY TAN I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no ... ANUSHKA SHARMA Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records th... BALAJI SRINIVASAN We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making ... ABIGAIL JOHNSON We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. W... LYNN COADY Mars rocks are falling on Earth as we speak. Some have actually been observed. Integrate that over b... BRUCE RUNNEGAR We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets ... PRISCILLA CHAN With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeal... BLYTHE MASTERS The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matt... GURJEET SINGH In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set... STEVE HANKE When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod f... ADAM DRAPER As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're g... BRETT FAVRE There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, eve... BILL GATES When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monolog... SEAN HAYES If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number... JACK MA In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money... GARY LINEKER If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules o... BILL WALSH I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images ... BARBARA KRUGER The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all th... NAVAL RAVIKANT
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VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The brain abhors discrepancies. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a ... VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN