Blockchain Quote by Vitalik Buterin

Big companies do not want to disrupt themselves. All they want to do is improve themselves. They see the blockchain as another IT project.…

— William Mougayar

Few incumbents will succeed in deploying blockchain applications to enable new business models. The innovator's dilemma will prevail. Even if they aspire to, they…

— William Mougayar

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

— Miguel de Icaza

As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece…

— Eben Moglen

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into…

— James Gleick

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never…

— Linus Torvalds

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road…

— Charles Duhigg

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

— Miguel de Icaza

I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six…

— Patrick M. Byrne

There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of innovation could move to other…

— David O. Sacks

Blockchain is moving beyond cryptocurrency, and it's worth paying attention - especially since successful prototypes show that blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology,…

— Julie Sweet

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are…

— Marc Andreessen