Rick Falkvinge famous quotes

Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Usa #Bitcoin #Significant

Bitcoin is getting there but it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Running #Government #Panic

The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Children #Responsibility #Liberty

Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Email #Bitcoin

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Iron #Way #West

Bitcoin is getting there. But it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Running #Government #Income

Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Giving Up #Communication #Way

We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.
-- Rick Falkvinge

#Fighting #Artist #Culture

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn't have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in the USA, that if there was no age limit, they could definitely make the Olympic team.

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.