"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."

“I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.”

“What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.”

“In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.”

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 531), March 24, 1971.

“But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.”

“These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.”

“I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

“Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.”