Quotes from Tyler Winklevoss

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg.

I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.

The narrative behind bitcoin has been dominated by bad behavior. The reality is bitcoin is filled with tons of talented developers building infrastructure.

Facebook is like the Internet: a large company and an application. Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralisation, so you could build a decentralised company on top of it, a stock market. It's an Internet of ownership, so it's not quite a direct comparison.

I remember when people called Facebook a fad.

I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.

I think it's always interesting when you see a company start moving so quickly - it's like wow, incredible. When a company like Uber starts breaking away, it's not a linear thing. It's exponential. All of a sudden, the guy you know who threw $25,000 at Uber very early on - all the sudden, that $25,000 is $25 million.

To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.

On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.

Every investor around the world wants to invest in U.S. markets because they're regulated and they're licensed. They're trustworthy; they have confidence. If you take that away, the global economy will take a hit like nothing else. We want to create that for Bitcoin.

We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.

I've been a huge fan of Mike Judge for a long time.

With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.

We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.

For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn about yourself, the sense of satisfaction as you get older and move on, you'll never forget that. It's huge.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia.

One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.

You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.

Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.