Vitalik Buterin Quotes
In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to - you need to have incentives.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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I don't work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Social radicals have therefore always faced the need to distinguish. There is a vital distinction between concern for women's rights (or liberty), founded on the aspiration for human freedom, and rejection of all restrictions on sexuality imposed by current social mores. This distinction is clearer in our day than ever before. Precisely because so many veils have been lifted, we plainly see the contemporary phenomenon of “sexual freedom” advocates who are only a new type of oppressors and exploiters of women. Many of the latter deserve the Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year award — from the Henry Miller type, whose anti-establishment rebellion masks the fact that he regards women as sexual objects only, to the Playboy Club sexploiter. To these champions of sexual freedom, women's emancipation operationally means their emancipation from sexual inhibitions the better to make them available to “emancipated” men for purposes that have nothing to do with social equality.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to - you need to have incentives.
