Michael Saylor

I can give you a list of 100 things that could go wrong, 1,000 things that can go wrong.

We could talk about that for hours and hours and hours.

I'm okay with pessimists.

We need pessimists because if we don't think about all the things that might go wrong, then we won't be ready.

But on the other hand, if I give you a list of a hundred things that could go wrong, it's very important that you have a stochastic view of the world.

Like you have to master probability statistics and you have to ask the, for example, you're walking across the street, looking the wrong way, worrying about the quantum threat.

But the thing that really could go wrong is you get hit by a truck.

And so the real threat is you get hit by a truck because you're not looking both ways while you cross the street and you're worried about something that is a hypothetical threat some number of years out that may or may not happen, that may or may not be solved before you have to do anything about it.

It turns out that, you know, I think people are very focused upon quantum because they ran out of all the other things to worry about.

We used to have the energy problem.

We used to have the China problem.

The miners weren't going to mine.

The miners are going to mine too much.

The energy is going to be too expensive.

There won't be enough energy.

We'll be shut down.

The government will ban this.

The government won't ban this.

Wall Street won't want it.

People won't buy it.