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
Julian Assange quotes about
messengers revealing uncomfortable
Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.
agency add databases
Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them,
track over-you information
Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.
networking notes meetings
That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.
feminism nests revolutionary
I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.
balance incentives bitcoin
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
wikileaks ethical capitalism
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
technology government espionage
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
wikileaks materials
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
political-will bird speech
The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.
successful pipeline gaps
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.
pride intelligence-services gentleman
In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.
definitions looks god-knows
If you look at most definitions, a god is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. In particular, god knows when you are doing something that you shouldn't be doing and whether you are playing according to god's rules.
glasses understanding cold
I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.