That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.