“I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no; respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don't get it. It's really that simple.” - Linus Torvalds

“The more loathsome people that use bitcoin, the better. The more it works even if teeming with people that mutually despise each other, the more faith I have in its ability to protect us all.” - Nic Carter

“Hugs not drugs.... no wait, hugs AND drugs!” - Ross Ulbricht

“Whether it is the growth of the new schools of economics in America or England or the appearance of the so-called new philosophers in France, there is one unifying thread running through the intellectual work of these groups — rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate, the realization that collectivism stifles all the best human impulses.” - Ronald Reagan

“Many a one cannot deliver himself from his own chains and yet he is his friend’s deliverer.” - Friedrich Nietzsche