Balaji Srinivasan Quotes
The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
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Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enthusiastic as ever about Bitcoin as a global currency and, really more importantly, Bitcoin as a global financial rail.
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Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
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And too much information can drive a man mad. Too much information becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
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Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable.
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One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.