Here's a few of mine.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete
~ Bucky Fuller
Rules without rulers
~ Andreas M. Antonopoulos
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
~ Proverbs 11:1
It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on. If enough people think the same way, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
~ Satoshi Nakamoto
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
~ Hal Finney
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~ Henry Ford
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop
The question isn't who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
~ Ayn Rand
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
~ Alfred Whitney Griswold
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
Here more famous quotes: https://www.satoshivibes.com/
My favorite one: "patience is key" - DarthCoin
lol. Zapped
~ David Clark
Yeah, I like this one.
"No Gods or Kings. Only Man."
I love the fact that the very same person has stated all these things:
Nassim Taleb aka. a living & breathing antonym for “stay humble”
Number 4 is really something...
All I can say is that bitcoin exposes to us the truth about others and ourselves. Seen it in myself and others.
Amen. Couldn’t agree more.
A good lesson in how easy it is to get high on your own supply. Universally applicable.
Wow, you know I missed the Taleb hype. I recently started reading Anti-fragile after years of having it on my reading list. Its hard to read knowing how he has reacted to bitcoin. He is something for sure. Hard for me to take people like him seriously. We can learn from arrogant fools though. I know he's not dumb. Clearly he's not. But he seems like a fool to me.
He is sadly everything that’s wrong with this time. Such an intelligent mind, such a student of history and a talented novel writer. But so often they are either captured by a) the system, b) the riches and/or c) their ego.
The worst thing is he has done 99% of the work and he now can’t let his egghead accept that he missed it all those years ago. He could be the last one on the Titanic and he still wouldn’t accept our hand to step onto the lifeboat.
However I still thank him for his service. His books are exceptional.
I wish someone like Robert Breedlove would debate him with his own quotes. It might be the only way he stops resisting. We need authors like him in Bitcoin.
Seems like ego to me but I'm no expert on his work or his personality. That's just my gut reaction to reading his anti-bitcoin stuff and realizing he had a falling out with Saifedean. When I first read "The Bitcoin Standard" I couldn't believe that he wrote the foreward. First because I had no idea he even was a bitcoiner (Now I don't think he ever got it) and secondly because he was so wrong about it in the forward. Later I learned what happened with that.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. -Keynes (I think. I first heard it from Doug Casey)
"The most powerful tool for social justice is a sound monetary system." - Friedrich Hayek
Yes, it is. It reminds me of another quote. Referring to progressives that want to "protect" the people but have no interest in bitcoin.
~ NLW
“You can’t stop things like Bitcoin. It will be everywhere, and the world will have to readjust. World governments (banks and corporations) will have to readjust” —John McAfee, Founder of McAfee
I just remembered this excerpt from 1984 by George Orwell:
When I read this for the first time, it made me think of the power of the Bitcoin secret seed I keep in my mind. No matter how tyrannical they become, they will never reach those "few cubic centimetres inside your skull". That seed is not only how I can access my wallet anytime, anywhere, but the very germ of my own freedom. And that's something no one will ever take away from me.
"You cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them." @ Albert Einstein
Another great one.
'The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.'
That's good