Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.