"People will be forced to pay with bitcoins, not because of 'the technology', but because no one will accept their worthless fiat for payments." —Pierre Rochard

"Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space." —Bruce Schneier

"The conscience of Bitcoin will guide you because it springs from such a beautiful place." —Cory Klippsten

"Consider just how little persistence Bitcoin’s components have. The entire codebase has been reworked, altered, and expanded such that it barely resembles its original version. […] The registry of who owns what, the ledger itself, is virtually the only persistent trait of the network." —Nic Carter

"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook

"Bitcoin is not a luxury of rich countries. Bitcoin is a need of poor countries." —Florencia Ravenna

"You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it." —Marty Bent

"Money shouldn't have a memory." —Chris Belcher

"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook

"A fixed money supply, or a supply altered only in accord with objective and calculable criteria, is a necessary condition to a meaningful just price of money." —Fr. Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.

"If you want the bitcoin price to be stable, you gotta put your nuts on the table." —Hass McCook