- Ross Ulbricht: I knew the state might try to impede it. But if we never try for fear of retribution, then we've already lost, you know?
- Ross Ulbricht: Silk road is about something much bigger than thumbing your nose at the man. It's about taking back our Liberty. And as corny as it sounds, I just wanna look back at my life and know that I did something that helped people.
- Ross Ulbricht: Until 1967, it was illegal for a white man to marry a black woman in the state of Virginia.
- Ross Ulbricht: [about Bitcoin] It's like tokens in an arcade. You go into the arcade, you buy the tokens, but nobody knows which tokens you used.
- Ross Ulbricht: I've decided to keep a journal about my experience running the site. I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be a good idea to keep a detailed account of it.
- Ross Ulbricht: Stop funding the state with your tax dollars and direct your productive energies towards the black markets.
- Ross Ulbricht: I just made 75 grand in bitcoin in the last 90 minutes, babe. Sooner or later someone's gonna come knocking.
- Ross Ulbricht: Silk road is going to become a phenomenon. And at least one person will tell me about it unknowing that I was its creator.
- Chris Tarbell: As the NSA puts it, with 2.5 million daily users, Tor's the king of high-security, low-latency Internet anonymity.
- Ross Ulbricht: Julia, look, the average silk road user is college educated, has a laptop and has access to broadband. More than that, there are seller reviews. Baby, buying drugs off of my site is safer than buying 'em on the street.
- Ross Ulbricht: Julia, it's brilliant. Look, that way, I can pass it along to somebody else. This thing is gonna outlive all of us.
- Julia: This isn't a movie, Ross. I'm gonna go to bed.
- Ross Ulbricht: Look, I am running a $50 million company, operating in 17 different countries with exactly one employee who just dropped off the face of the earth.
- Curtis Clark Green: See, we are, though. We are a global enterprise. And it's growing. Not growing by the week or the month, it's growing by the hour.
- Ross Ulbricht: The way I see it, we are all players in something that has grown beyond any of us. Rarely do I lift my head long enough to take in just how amazing all of this is.
- Rick Bowden: Life is not always black and white, but, you know, things are more complicated than that.
- Ross Ulbricht: But I learned that when you give people freedom, you don't know what they'll do with it.
- Rick Bowden: You might not know it, but... But dudes are buying and selling narcotics on the computers. There was a reshuffle at work and I got promoted and put into cybercrimes, so... I need someone to show me how to buy dope on YouTube.