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Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.

Nick Szabo

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• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Property

• All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• But it's a fact that guaranteed contracts set up the roster you're going to have. If (kids) do make it, the decision becomes whether you eat one of those big contracts.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Decision

• Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Objects

• I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Public
  • Property

• This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Property
  • Oxygen
  • Chemists

• One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Time
  • Great
  • Painting

• An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Light
  • Dies
  • Objects

• Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is

  

  Baizhang Huaihai
  • Objects
  • Enlightened

• This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Good
  • Business
  • Movie

• I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Property
  • Don't Believe
  • Wealthy

• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Business
  • Property

• Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

  

  Aristotle
  • Live
  • Man
  • Property

• I still claim that there are only few constraints. Our division is too complex to have more than a very few independent chains. Lou, don’t you realize that everything we mentioned so far is closely connected? The lack of sensible long-term strategy, the measurement issues, the lag in product design, the long lead times in production, the general attitude of passing the ball, of apathy, are all connected. We must put our finger on the core problem, on the root that causes them all. That is what actually is meant by identify the constraint. It’s not prioritizing the bad effects, it’s identifying what causes them all.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Problem
  • Issues
  • Strategy

• Winning isn't the end of the world

  

  David Pleat
  • World
  • Winning

• I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as you say nothing, you can make up with her. If you say something, it's going to be another argument, you are going to get no pussy and you go to bed mad. But if you don't say nothing, it gets closer and closer, y'all make love and it's all expressed through love.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Mad

• Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.

  

  Nick Szabo
  • Property
  • Objects
  • Contracts