5 Quotes by Marc Goodman

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially — and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.

Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master's degree in science and engineering.

Ever the man of his word, DPR wired the remaining $40,000 balance to the killer and even sent a thank-you note for the hit, lamenting in an encrypted e-mail, "I'm pissed I had to kill him . . . but what is done is done . . . I just can't believe he was so stupid . . . I just wish more people had some integrity." Yes, the founder of Silk Road, the world's largest illicit marketplace, the man who had just ordered a hit on his own employee, was disturbed by the lack of integrity in this world.