Barton Gellman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.
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When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
-- Barton Gellman
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It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
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I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
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