Censorship always starts by censoring some outrage that everybody agrees should be censored. No one even notices that what's happening is you're handing power to a group of people that they can now use against you in the future. Censorship always starts with something you like, and it ends as something you don't like when it finally gets turned against you.

It [COVID-19 vaccine distribution] is a wartime scenario. When war is happening, you don't go home at 5 PM, and wake up at 9 AM, and clock out for an hour for lunch ... We've created incredible disincentives in the system. In fact, [Andrew] Cuomo put out a million-dollar fine if you get your vaccine out of line. Think about the disincentive that creates. Now, people are more scared about giving the vaccine to the wrong person than they are incentivized to give the vaccine to the right person.

There's a series of court challenges we can talk about. I think that they're unlikely to prevail—very, very unlikely. I think Joe Biden will be the next president. We can kind of compare this to Bush v. Gore from 2000, and if you want to compare Trump's case to Gore's case, it's weaker in every respect.

This guy [Moncef] Slaoui, who's the head of the Trump administration's effort to produce the vaccine, he actually slowed down the Moderna human trials by about three weeks because they weren't including enough minorities in the trial, and that cost them three weeks. If it weren't for those three weeks, Moderna's vaccine would have happened before Pfizer's, and it would have come out about a week before the election.

The thing I do think was unacceptable by President Biden and the Democrats is a level of demonization and the level of vitriol that they have pursued against President Trump—not as a one-off statement but as a campaign strategy. Again, they have said over and over again, 'This man has Hitler. This man is a fascist. This man is a threat to democracy. If he wins, it is the end of democracy.'

We used to pride ourselves on a culture that enabled freedom of speech—that was cherished and heralded; what's cherished and heralded now is a culture that protects people from hearing offensive and scary things that they don't want to hear.

21 million+ [COVID-19 vaccine] doses have been distributed in the United States; 5.9 [million] have made their way into people's arms ... Over 75% of doses have not gone in people's arms. And, in California, we have distributed 5.85% of the population's vaccines, but we've only put 1.3% in people's arms ... We're at 25% of where we should be. It is absolutely unbelievable that this is happening.

I don't think you go to school to learn as much as you go to school to socialize; you learn as a byproduct. Everybody socializes; not everybody learns. It's an enormously important & formative experience for a child to be around 15 or 20 other kids and to deal with all the adversity that comes with normal life of a child.

There's just no way to fake what [Trump] did in that moment ... The bullet missing him was either luck or hand of God or destiny, whatever you want to call it. But him telling the Secret Service to stop to face the crowd to basically show that he was unharmed and that he was determined and he was defiant in the face of an assassin's bullet, that's courage that nobody can fake.

There are a lot of very, very reasonable Republicans and a lot of very reasonable Democrats. The fringes of both parties are functionally mentally retarded.

I don't think we can say we [America] are the superpower anymore and that China is an up-and-coming superpower. It's pretty clear they're an equal superpower ... If we have an edge, it's a very minor one at this point.

I think that voters need to ask the question, who do you want representing the United States right now in a world that's on fire? Who do you want to stand up to Putin or Xi or make peace with them? Who do you want to stand up to or be allies with Netanyahu, for example. The United States, right now, is in a very difficult situation. We can't have a teleprompter president; we need a strong president.

I think COVID-19 is going to be a distant memory by next summer. I think we'll have one to two quarters of transition, but I think that once the vaccine's widely available, plus the treatment and testing for the people who slip through the cracks... I tend to think things are going to snap back very fast and COVID-19 will just be this bad memory.

The reason why innovation has happened so fast on the Internet is because of one word: permissionless. Permissionless innovation. Nobody who has an idea for a startup needs to get permission from someone in the government repeatedly. That's really what makes a difference.

Chamath thinks it'll take two years until things get back to normal after COVID-19.

You graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country ... If you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country.

I'm very bullish about the state of entrepreneurship in the US. Just the number of interesting companies doing interesting things and the infrastructure that makes it so easy for founders to get started and create new companies... It's so much easier now to create a company than it was 10 years or 20 years ago. And, of course, it's easy to point to all the ones that don't work... but there are so many more experiments that are happening... I'm very bullish about that part of the American economy.

I think the first thing America has to do is decide whether it still thinks that national greatness is important and whether it wants to compete to be the leading power in the world. Right now, it seems like we're hopelessly divided, and our guns are literally drawn on each other.

What causes inflation is the printing of too much money. It's governments spending too much. It is not corporate greed, because corporate greed is a constant. It's not price gouging.

There is nowhere in the ag or food supply chain that we are seeing, fundamentally, price gouging or profit-taking happening. What has happened is the cost of labor, the cost of moving stuff around, the cost of fuel, the cost of electricity, the cost of goods has all risen with inflation because of the increase in the money supply and federal spending and the stimulus associated with the Federal Reserve buying assets onto their balance sheet.