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"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."

"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."
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"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."

"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."

"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."

"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."

"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."

"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."

"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."

"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000."

"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up."
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