"Mathematics is not the law." — Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018) #mathematics #law #cryptography #philosophy

"Remember, there are a lot tyrants out there." — Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018) #tyranny #warning #freedom

"Digital cash, untraceable and anonymous (like real cash), is also coming, though various technical and practical hurdles remain." — Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994) #digitalcash #anonymity #privacy

"Cash is also pretty good for privacy because there's no camera that can capture every movement of a dollar bill every time it moves; it just wouldn't work." — Peter Valkenburgh (Your Secret Right to Cash, 2017) #cash #privacy #surveillance #technology

"You can't awaken someone who's pretending to be asleep." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)

"Bulk collection, which should become one of the dirtiest phrases in the language if we have any kind of decency." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019) #surveillance #masssurveillance

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John Gilmore (Time Magazine, 1993) #censorship #internet #freedom

"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. And in the same manner that very significant resources spent on China's firewall, the result is that anyone who's motivated can work around it." — Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010) #censorship #leaks

"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness." — Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015) #freedom #empowerment

"I am active in policy space rather writing code, doing a lot of public speaking. There is a lot of need for activism now in the shadow of the Patriot Act." — Philip Zimmermann (GrepLaw, 2003) #patriotact #surveillance