A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
Edward SnowdenI don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.
Edward SnowdenBecause, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.
Edward SnowdenSo when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.
Edward Snowden