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Andreas Antonopolous on Defining Blockchain
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Can you define ‘blockchain’? I think a few people in this room could define blockchain, but the real challenge would be can you define ‘blockchain’ in such a way that I can’t do search and replace with the word ‘database’ and still make that sentence work.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on Blockchain vs Bitcoin
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“Blockchain is Bitcoin with a haircut and a suit that you parade in front of your board.”
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Andreas Antonopolous on The Internet And The Future Of Banking
Author: Andreas Antonopolous“What happened with the internet wasn’t that we had some great companies that made some great platforms. What happened with the internet was that you didn’t need anybody’s permission to launch an application, and so you could launch one and then let other people use it to launch another and another and another, and it…
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Truman Capote on Teens
Author: Truman Capote“I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.”
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E. E. Cummings on Humanity
Author: E. E. Cummings“Humanity I love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting down on it.”
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Buckaroo Banzai on You
Author: Buckaroo Banzai“No matter where you go, there you are.”
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Miyamoto Musashi on Technique
Author: Miyamoto Musashi“Consider yourself lightly, the world deeply. All technique is simply a way of cutting your opponent down.”
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Terry Pratchett on Chance
Author: Terry Pratchett“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
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Dr. Seuss on Happening
Author: Dr. Seuss“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too”.
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Dr. Seuss on Fun
Author: Dr. Seuss“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on The Antilibrary
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently-tight real estate market allow you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of…
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Nathaniel Borenstein on Accidents
Author: Nathaniel Borenstein“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
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Ekhart Tolle on Life
Author: Ekhart Tolle“You don’t HAVE a life: you ARE life.”
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Alan Watts on Pleasure
Author: Alan Watts“There is no pleasure without skill.”
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Jordan Peterson on Feeling Good
Author: Jordan Peterson“You need to be going somewhere and there needs to be a pathway in order for you to feel good.”
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Warren Buffett on Investment Types
Author: Warren Buffett“People really have three basic alternatives: short term cash, which is an option of doing something later on, long term bonds or long term stock.”
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T. S. Eliot on Exploration
Author: T. S. Eliot“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”
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Oscar Wilde on Kindness
Author: Oscar Wilde“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
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Confucius on Knowledge
Author: Confucius“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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Freeman Dyson on The Universe
Author: Freeman Dyson“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming!”
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Tom Stoppard on Being Alive
Author: Tom Stoppard“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”
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Gilad Edelman on Web3
Author: Gilad Edelman“If cryptocurrency was originally about decentralizing money, Web3 is about decentralizing … everything. Its mission is almost achingly idealistic: to free humanity not only from Big Tech domination but also from exploitative capitalism itself—and to do it purely through code.”
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Charlie Munger on Bitcoin
Author: Charlie Munger“A cryptocurrency is not a currency, not a commodity, and not a security. Instead, it’s a gambling contract with a nearly 100% edge for the house, entered into in a country where gambling contracts are traditionally regulated only by states that compete in laxity. Obviously the U.S. should now enact a new federal law that…
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Bill Bryson on Molecules
Author: Bill Bryson“One cubic cm of air, that is, the space about the size of a sugar cube, will contain about 45,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules.”
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Bill Bryson on Atoms
Author: Bill Bryson“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms, up to a billion per each of us, it has been sugested,…