I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.