Casares Quotes & Sayings

In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin. — Wences Casares

The Shuttle was retired in 2011, after 30 years in service, and today the Soyuz, a much smaller vehicle, is the only way for human beings to get to the ISS. Some astronauts hired during the Shuttle era are simply too tall to fly in the tiny Soyuz. The possibility that they'll leave Earth is currently zero. — Chris Hadfield

Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave. — Anne Sexton

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

My best days are ahead of me and I choose not to let where I've been to stop me from where I am going. — Jamie Larbi

Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man. — Jorge Luis Borges

The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost). — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above. — Jimmy Buffett

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Spontaneity is the mother of crudity. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser. — Wences Casares

jimi & and me — Adolfo Bioy Casares

When you get out of your own way, you begin your treck to a peak called Success. — Vishwas Chavan

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people. — Wences Casares

The 'egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The 'egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness. — Dada Bhagwan

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, Out of business. — Billy Graham

The Commonwealth - humanity - is in deep shit, and we're the people with the shovels. — Marko Kloos

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth — Malcolm Gladwell

I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone.
Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed ... — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

You're letting me go?"
He curled his upper lip, his expression painfully bitter as he took a step back from me.
"Apparently ... I never had a hold of you." He turned sharply, and without another word striding down the street into the dark.
Braden never once looked back and that was a good thing.
If he had, he'd have seen Jocelyn Butler crying real tears for the first time in a long time, and he would have known that I'd lied. And lied big. For anyone who saw me, knew they were watching a heart in the process of it breaking. — Samantha Young

... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert's program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game and one is only concerned with the question of consistency ... The Realist position is probably the one which most mathematicians would prefer to take. It is not until he becomes aware of some of the difficulties in set theory that he would even begin to question it. If these difficulties particularly upset him, he will rush to the shelter of Formalism, while his normal position will be somewhere between the two, trying to enjoy the best of two worlds. — Paul Cohen

When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we're not paying attention! That's incredible. That's what had one chance in a million, and it already happened. — Wences Casares

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different. — Michael Sanders