Hal Finney famous quotes

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
-- Hal Finney

#People #Tools #Computer

Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.
-- Hal Finney

#Use #Bitcoin #Wealth

Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker. It is a very modern notion that exploits the power of the long tail.
-- Hal Finney

#Ideas #Long #Bitcoin

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.