LAI

“In its infancy, Bitcoin already appears to satisfy all the requirements of Menger, Mises, and Hayek: it is a highly salable free‐market option that is resistant to government meddling.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“The science writer Brian Christian had an answer: computers are able to imitate humans not because the computers are such accomplished conversationalists, but because we humans are so robotic.”
― Tim Harford, Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

“Uncontrolled, our appetite for the dramatic goes too far, prevents us from seeing the world as it is, and leads us terribly astray.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Inside a dark pool, no one but the broker who ran it had any idea what was happening.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt