“Bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.” - Tacitus

“The utility of the exchanges made possible by Bitcoin will far exceed the cost of electricity used. Therefore, not having Bitcoin would be the net waste.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“Although the shrewdest judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchery, this guilt nevertheless did not exist. This applies to all guilt.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The types of collection in [1984] - microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us - are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.” - Edward Snowden

“Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?” - Ronald Reagan

“Libertarianism holds out, not the goal of a perfect society, but of a better and freer one. It promises a world in which more of the decisions will be made in the right way by the right person: you.” - Bill Weld