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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.


Barry Eisler

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BARRY SILBERT As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services,...
BARRY SILBERT People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated ...
BARRY SILBERT Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful ...
BARRY SILBERT Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropaymen...
BARRY SILBERT The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It...
BARRY SILBERT Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, b...
BARRY SILBERT While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day ma...
BARRY SILBERT I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championshi...
BARRY SHEENE Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
BARRY SHEENE It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
BARRY SHEENE I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomor...
BARRY SHEENE They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
BARRY SHEENE It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
BARRY SHEENE I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
BARRY SHEENE Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
BARRY SHEENE I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to car...
BARRY SHEENE I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu...
BARRY SCHWARTZ How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y...
BARRY SCHWARTZ Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
BARRY SCHWARTZ What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ