21 Quotes by Jaan Tallinn

The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?

Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.