Inspiring, exciting, interesting quotes from tech leaders I am still thinking about weeks later

"The long-term goal for Ethereum 2.0 and 3.0 is for the protocol to quite literally be able to maintain a blockchain capable of processing Visa-scale transaction levels, or even several orders of magnitude higher, using a network consisting of nothing but a sufficiently large set of users running nodes on consumer laptops." Vitalik Buterin

“With the arrival of the Internet (and the world of knowledge it connects you to), being illiterate is increasingly being seen as an inability to learn on your own… Learning is now a continuous lifelong activity and with the Internet available, it's largely accomplished using a self-service approach.  When you want to find something out you can usually find it on the Internet, or if you need to learn a new skill, you can usually find a course on the Internet to learn it and experts to help you out.” John Robb 

“A good founder is capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death.” Balaji S. Srinivasan

“If the three most desirable things in a world defined by organizations are location, location and location, in the networked world they are connections, connections and connections.” Breaking Smart

“Squint a few years out to visualize the complete marginalization of today's establishment. The future is nationalists vs technologists.” Balaji S. Srinivasan

“Access (and experience) is becoming the new ownership … our bling isn’t our house or our car, it is the theatre of Instagram and the experiences we are having in the world.” Brian Chesky