"People are just not accustomed to excellence. When you go to school, you're not given the criteria by which to judge between quality this or quality that. All they do is teach you just enough to be some kind of a slug in a factory to do your job, so you can take home a paycheck and consume some other stuff that somebody else makes. There's no emphasis in schools in the United States put on preparing people to live a life that has beautiful things in it. You know, things that might bring them aesthetic enrichment. That is not a major consideration."
— Frank Zappa
100%
A portrait of the artist Yury Yarin working on his Pantocrator mosaic in 2019: 
Art patronage makes more sense when you think about it as an attempt to sponsor the highest quality masterpiece ever created on the planet.
It should be a crime to build search bars that autocorrect (to the wrong word) without asking you 😂
Brand new song from Gordon! This is top notch:
At a small scale / micropayments sure, but I read this quote as if he’s talking about millions of dollars 😂
"Unless you're down here deep in the rabbit hole with us, we sound crazy. When you take the final leap down to the true #Bitcoin maximalist level of understanding, the essential thrust of that is to come to grips with Bitcoin's space in the monetary landscape, and to understand that money is in competition constantly. You come away from that understanding that every individual has a choice every single day about which money to store their hard-earned value in—where do you store your wealth? What we can extrapolate is that the hardest money ends up winning, because from an individual point of view, people learn that that's the thing to store their wealth in if they want to keep their wealth, and that's the position that #Bitcoin finds itself in as the one and only credible form of digital scarcity that's now going to eat the lunch of every other form of store of value that has supply growth over time."
— Jesse Myers aka Croesus
"I was like, Oh, I'm not a software engineer, but I can do hardware. So it looks like it's my time now to contribute to an open source project, to #Bitcoin. As a Bitcoiner, I also saw my chance to give something back. And this is what I could actually do for this community, and that was really appealing for me too. And especially in the Ronin Dojo node project, I could tell: there is no revenue stream, they don't have any funding it looks like, so okay—I have time. I can do that. And I really saw it more as giving back to the #Bitcoin community as a whole with my skills. And before, I was always thinking, Oh, you need to be a coder."
— @Din_J76
“I look forward to the day when there will be many museums of modern art independently controlled, tolerant of the best of many kinds of expression, cultivating catholicity and world-mindedness, encouraging living artists to their bravest and truest creative impulses, recording and interpreting history as it is made, relating the present of art to its past and leading it on into the future.”
— Duncan Phillips
“I'm convinced that to give away a dollar effectively is harder than to make a dollar.”
— Steve Jobs, 1 Feb 1985
Beautiful photo from Morgan Asoyuf of her Wolf Frontlet, featured in the Royal Portrait exhibition in 2019: 
Michael Saylor: #Bitcoin is naturally engineered to be organically healthy in the same way that a creature in nature can’t help but be healthy! You can’t regulate your body temperature at 37 degrees Fahrenheit for long before you simply just die. It doesn’t matter how much you wish you could — you just can’t! And that is the brutal discipline of Nature. And the result is: you have this feedback, and then you have a constant Darwinian evolution to the virtuous — and that’s how life continues. So I think the recipe for virtue in a monetary system is: you have to plug it into Nature. Gold was plugged into Nature in a roundabout way — not perfect, because you could sort of sack a city and inflate the supply of gold, or you could find more gold and you can lie about the quality of the gold and you could centralize the gold and seize it — so, not perfect, but there was some thermodynamic relationship to Nature and matter and energy. And I think #Bitcoin achieves that thermodynamic relationship via proof of work mining. And that’s what makes it healthy: the fact that it’s an open protocol that’s decentralized makes it uncorruptible — much much much harder to corrupt than something that does naturally centralize.