Julian Assange
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assangeis an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of the organisation WikiLeaks, which he founded in 2006...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth3 July 1971
CityTownsville, Australia
CountryAustralia
writing media organization
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
writing thinking rights
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.
adventure daring ifs
If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.
world this-world nothing-new
There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.
over-you ignorant rulers
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
internet penetration best-things
The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.
adventure eye grandchildren
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.
hands people needs
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
limits knows
What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.
tired politics newspapers
Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.
war long ends
The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.
media journalism controversial
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
stopping censorship leaks
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
character faces injustice
Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.