名言与原则索引
按主题分类的中本聪短摘录索引。每条给出英文原文、中文大意、日期与回链原文的出处。引文脱离语境最易被误用，引用时请同时注明日期。
货币与发行
"Circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. Transactions only transfer ownership."
流通量将是 2100 万枚；交易只转移所有权。——2009-02-13，P2P Foundation 论坛 · 原文归档
"Eventually at most only 21 million coins for 6.8 billion people in the world if it really gets huge."
如果它真的发展壮大，最终全世界 68 亿人至多只有 2100 万枚。——2010-02-06，Bitcointalk · 原文归档
"Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone."
丢失的币只会让其他人的币稍微更值钱一点，把它看作给所有人的捐赠。——2010-06-21，Bitcointalk · 原文归档
"In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for nodes."
几十年后当区块奖励变得过小时，交易手续费将成为节点的主要报偿。——2010-02-14，Bitcointalk · 原文归档
隐私与安全
"The owner of a coin is just whoever has its private key."
币的持有者，就是持有其私钥的人。——2009-02-13，P2P Foundation 论坛 · 原文归档
"To protect privacy, key pairs are used only once, with a new one for every transaction."
为保护隐私，密钥对只使用一次，每笔交易都用新的。——2009-02-13，P2P Foundation 论坛 · 原文归档
"Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own."
政府擅长砍掉 Napster 这类中央控制网络的头，但 Gnutella、Tor 这样的纯 P2P 网络似乎守得住。——2008-11，密码学邮件列表 · 原文归档
治理与演进
"The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime."
比特币的特性决定了，一旦 0.1 版发布，核心设计就此冻结，直至其生命终结。——2010-06-17，Bitcointalk · 转引
"There's more work to do on DoS, but I'm doing a quick build of what I have so far in case it's needed, before venturing into more complex ideas."
DoS 方面还有很多工作要做，但我先把手头已有的快速构建出来以备不时之需，再去碰更复杂的想法。——2010-12-12，Bitcointalk · 转引
"I had a few other things on my mind (as always). […] I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
我脑子里还有别的事（一直如此）……我已转向其他事情。它在 Gavin 和大家手里很稳妥。——2011-04-23，私人邮件 · 转引
方法与态度
"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
如果你不信我或者没理解，很抱歉，我没时间说服你。——2010-07-29，Bitcointalk · 转引
"It's the same situation as gold and gold mining. The marginal cost of gold mining tends to stay near the price of gold."
这和黄金与金矿开采的情况一样：黄金开采的边际成本倾向于贴近金价。——2010-08-07，Bitcointalk · 原文归档
"Educated guess, and the maths work out to round numbers."
有依据的猜测，数学上凑得出整数。（答"2100 万如何得出"）——2009 年，致 Mike Hearn 邮件 · 转引