Michael Saylor

I could list a hundred.

People asked Satoshi back in the day about the quantum threat.

And what Satoshi said, he said, we can upgrade.

So my short answer on the threat is we can upgrade.

My more thoughtful answer is

The optimists are comfortable.

The pessimists are writing these papers.

The alarmists are just seeking to aggrandize power and influence and money by amping this way out of proportion.

I'm not an alarmist.

I don't think people should be alarmist.

I would caution anyone from making decisions based on alarmism because there's a tendency in this world for people to consider a hypothetical risk that somewhere in the future, amp it up by a factor of 10,000 and then ask you for money.

And normally, that's how I raise money.

Like if I'm trying to finance my quantum startup, I'm like, you know, quantum's a big threat.

Why don't you give me a lot of money?

In politics, it happens.

It's like, well, you know, if such and such gets elected, you know, they're going to, you know, shut down this business.

Why don't you give me a lot of money?

So you see this in politics.

You see it in venture capital.

You see it in medicine.