Leon Louw quotes

“Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government”
-- Leon Louw

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“Every informed person needs to know about Bitcoin because it might be one of the world’s most important developments.”
-- Leon Louw

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“When things are in the hands of the state they are in a hell of a state!”
-- Leon Louw

Source : "Leon Louw on Sinking South Africa - and How Free-Market Thinking Can Help Recover Prosperity". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. November 20, 2011.

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“Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.”
-- Leon Louw

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“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”

“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...”

“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”

“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.53, Transaction Publishers

“Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.”

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

“Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.”

“Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.”