"I hate hearing people who say they invested their life savings in bitcoin. Don't do that. And I have not done that personally, bitcoin is an experiment."
— Gavin Andresen
"My vision is really to give people more control over their money in the financial world."
— Gavin Andresen
"Fewer than many people think."
— Gavin Andresen
"There are some questions I'm sick of giving answers to. Don't ask me if I'm Satoshi."
— Gavin Andresen
"In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world."
— Gavin Andresen
"Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it."
— Gavin Andresen
"Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream."
— Gavin Andresen
"I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger."
— Gavin Andresen