- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
One line questions whether encryption is really the internet's biggest problem, given how many strangers it connects who aren't actually friends. For related tech reflections, see our Computer quotes.
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- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in debates on the Internet, expressing extreme views, and then meet them, discuss with them, bring them into the open. We have not used bans or used the laws to try to forbid parties or political tendencies which we don't like.
- Big Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big idea of, 'Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet' - that's on the horizon; that's how we built everything we do.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet requires evolved forms of governance that we haven't figured out as a planet. I'd love to help make that easier and make that possible.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emergence of open Internet protocols for value exchange, today led by the global adoption of Bitcoin's blockchain, paves the way for value to move as freely as information and data move on the Internet today.
- DARPA
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- Nov 07, 2020
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020