Brock Pierce Quotes

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.

I follow Rick Falkvinge, who founded the Swedish Pirate party and was one of the very early adopters of Bitcoin.

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.

Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it's potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn't have to be that way.

The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.

I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It has all the attributes other than the fact that it isn't tangible, and tangibility is less important in the digital age.

For a major publisher like Time Inc. to embrace Bitcoin sends an important message to both its readers and to the broader media community.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn't just a flash in the pan.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

Bitcoin as an asset class is brilliant, as a means of payment, fantastic.

Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn't require the bankers.

Bitcoin will experience many bubbles along its way to improving the lives of everyone on the planet. I'm not concerned with the short-term price fluctuations.