"It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing." ⎯ Balaji

There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier. ⎯ Balaji

By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens. ⎯ Balaji

"Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more." ⎯ Balaji

"I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company." ⎯ Balaji

“The right cycle is the story of this epistle: strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, and hard times create strong men.” ⎯ Balaji

"In the innovation economy, you don’t just make things happen once. You make things happen over and over again." ⎯ Balaji

“Building a great company is all about assembling a team of people smarter than you.” ⎯ Balaji

"Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that." ⎯ Balaji

"We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world." ⎯ Balaji

"If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains." ⎯ Balaji

"If the purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, then the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality." ⎯ Balaji

"The internet, because it connects people peer to peer entities, peer to peer, it removes the middleman, it removes the mediator, it removes the moderator, it removes the mediocrity." ⎯ Balaji

"The reason speed has value is because time has value; the reason time has value is because human life spans are finite." ⎯ Balaji

"The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant." ⎯ Balaji

"You don't need to stamp to send an email, you don't need a TV license broadcast on YouTube, you don't need a radio license to do a podcast and you don't need to use old regulations to constrain the future." ⎯ Balaji

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create" ⎯ Balaji