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
response
Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.
journalist espionage
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.
winner virtue
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
first-amendment national-security security
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
entered public record volumes
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
ignorant cages persons
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
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.
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.
stopping censorship leaks
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
hands organization criticism
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.
feminism saudi-arabia sweden
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,