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
skills language journalism
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
kings bishops slave
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
people labels criminals
We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.
important increase phenomenon
These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.
moving son names
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.
latin people understanding
Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
long want facts
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
country missing citizens
I am an Australian citizen, and I miss my country a great deal.
people helpful leaks
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
moving media may
It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.
real impact people
Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.
mean enormous-quantities organization
That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.
data paper journalism
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism".
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.