Balaji Srinivasan

"The Network State is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world."

"Software is reorganizing the world."

"The internet is the great equalizer. With a laptop and wifi, you can compete with anyone."

"The 20th century was about atoms. The 21st century is about bits."

"Technology is the driving force of history, and we are in the middle of the largest technological transformation in human history."

"Ideas are the new oil. The countries and companies that generate the best ideas will dominate the 21st century."

"The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. Our job is to figure out where it is and bring it back."

"The most important skill in the 21st century is the ability to filter signal from noise."

"History tells us what people do; historical fiction tells us what it felt like to be there."

"Voice and exit are the two fundamental responses to any system you dislike."

"Pseudonymous economy: build a following, start a company, create a reputation—all without revealing your legal name."

"Regulatory arbitrage is just another name for freedom."