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21 " At any point, for all perpetuity, any new administration—any future rogue head of the NSA—could just show up to work and, as easily as flicking a switch, instantly track everybody with a phone or a computer, know who they were, where they were, what they were doing with whom, and what they had ever done in the past. "
― Edward Snowden , Permanent Record
22 " The geek inherited the earth "
23 " zdolność szybkiego i trafnego przewidywania następstw naszych wyborów w oparciu o posiadane informacje nazywamy inteligencją. "
24 " Nie należy wyprowadzać z błędu tych, którzy cię nie doceniają. Ci, co nie dostrzegają twojej prawdziwej wartości, obnażają tym samym własne wrażliwe punkty – ziejące dziury w postrzeganiu świata, które powinny pozostać niezasklepione, jeśli chcesz przez nie później przegalopować na grzbiecie płonącego konia, by swym mieczem sprawiedliwości przywrócić prawdę. "
25 " I can still feel it—the present-tense emptiness every time my call was dropped by an overloaded cell network, and the gradual realization that, cut off from the world and stalled bumper to bumper, even though I was in the driver’s seat, I was just a passenger. "
26 " A world in which every law is always enforced would be a world in which everyone was a criminal. "
27 " Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American. "
― Edward Snowden
28 " To refuse to claim your privacy is actually to cede it, either to state trespassing its constitutional restraints or to a "private" business. "
29 " wszelkie próby przeciwstawiania się regułom panującym w tym systemie są skazane na niepowodzenie, przede wszystkim dlatego, że każda zmiana zasad na takie, które byłyby korzystniejsze dla większości uczestników, wymagałaby przekonania twórców owych zasad do dobrowolnego osłabienia swojej pozycji. "
30 " It's important to bear in mind that I'm being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrentless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineer a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 1000,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school. "
31 " Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. "
32 " Put simply, computers were not designed to correct mistakes, but to hide them—and to hide them only from those parties who don’t know where to look. "
33 " Affermare che la privacy non ci interessa perché non abbiamo nulla da nascondere è un po’ come affermare che la libertà di parola non ci interessa perché non abbiamo nulla da dire. "
34 " A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret. "
35 " In the end, the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake.We are stateless, imprisoned or powerless.No, the Obama administration is afraid of you.It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised— and it should be. "
36 " I was outraged, yes, but that was only the beginning of a process in which my heart completely defeated my rational judgment. I accepted all the claims retailed by the media as facts, and I repeated them as if I were being paid for it. "
37 " Direct engagement, which can be harsh and emotionally draining, simply doesn't happen that much on the technical side of intelligence, and almost never in computing. There is a depersonalization of experience fostered by the distance of a screen. Peering at life through a window can ultimately abstract us from our actions and limit any meaningful confrontation with their consequences. "
38 " Most people, even today, tend to think of mass surveillance in terms of content - the actual words they use when they make a phone call or write an email. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the content of our communications is rarely as revealing as its other elements - the unwritten, unspoken information that can expose the broader context and patterns of behavior. "
39 " To było moje pierwsze wyobrażenie o tacie: był bohaterem. "
40 " When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens - we're subjects. "