“Listen more than you speak. Observe more than you explain.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoinsattva)

“Do not focus on day-to-day price. Attend instead to the quantity you hold in cold storage. That number changes only as you choose to change it.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Taking the Orange Pill)

“The search was not for novelty, but for sturdiness.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Speculation)

“This awakening cannot be imposed from without.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Inception)

“Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft. Live a peaceful life.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Preface)

“In time, the people began to search for a new foundation.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Parable of the Empty Vault)

“Vote with your wallet.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Spend Bitcoin)

“As you start to walk on The Way, The Way appears.”

— Rumi, Masnavi (paraphrase, circa 1260 AD), quoted in The Way of Bitcoin (Inception)

“What had seemed like scattered troubles now formed a single pattern.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (The Parable of the Empty Vault)

“You escape Bitcoin Purgatory when you focus on your craft.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Purgatory)

“What first appears as a monetary innovation gradually takes shape as a discipline. A way of relating to time, value, and labor. A practice that rewards diligence, patience, and humility.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Preface)

“Bitcoin becomes real when you take responsibility for the private keys that control it.”

— Alan B, The Way of Bitcoin (Store Bitcoin)