"There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture." — Aaron Swartz (Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008) #civildisobedience #openaccess

"Proprietary software is an injustice. It denies users freedom and keeps them divided and helpless." — Richard Stallman (Free Software, Free Society, 2002) #proprietarysoftware #freedom

"If cryptography's most basic aim is to enable secure communications, how could it not be a colossal failure of our field when ordinary people lack even a modicum of communication privacy when interacting electronically?" — Phillip Rogaway (The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, 2015) #cryptography #privacy

"We are not asking to threaten the national security. We're asking to discard a Cold War bureaucratic idea of national security which is obsolete. My response to the NSA is: Show us. Show the public how your ability to violate the privacy of any citizen has prevented a major disaster." — John Gilmore (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993) #nsa #privacy #nationalsecurity #transparency #government

"If you have a certain amount of time to spend on advancing the cause of greater personal privacy, can you do it better by using the time to learn about cryptography and develop the tools to protect privacy, or by convincing your government not to invade your privacy?" — Wei Dai (Cypherpunks mailing list, 1995) #privacy #cryptography

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer.'" — Richard Stallman (GNU Project, 1985) #freesoftware #liberty #opensource

"Remember, there are a lot tyrants out there." — Tim May (CoinDesk, 2018) #tyranny #warning #freedom

"What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope, it would draw suspicion." — Philip Zimmermann (Why I Wrote PGP, 1991) #privacy #encryption #conformity

"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us." — Julian Assange (Forbes, 2010) #whistleblowing #transparency #leaks

"I'd like to think that decades from now, people will look back and see this time as the dawning of a new era of individual empowerment and freedom." — Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2013) #bitcoin #freedom

"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting." — Edward Snowden (The Guardian Interview, 2013) #nsa #surveillance #masssurveillance

"I believed in the idea of giving people the freedom to buy and sell and connect with each other without the all-seeing eye of government watching every move." — Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015) #freedom #privacy

"There is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this conference room represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces." — Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993) #cryptography #cypherpunk #resistance #government

"I would like to die peacefully in my sleep, knowing that I helped create a better world for those who come after me." — Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2013)

"It's not data that's being exploited. It's people that are being exploited. It's not data that's being manipulated, it's you that's being manipulated." — Edward Snowden (Joe Rogan Experience, 2019) #surveillance #privacy

"A phase change is coming. Virtual communities are in their ascendancy, displacing conventional notions of nationhood. Geographic proximity is no longer as important as it once was." — Tim May (Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities, 1994)

"The outcome of this struggle may determine the amount of freedom our society will grant us in the 21st century. To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk." — Steven Levy (Crypto Rebels (WIRED), 1993) #freedom #cypherpunk #privacy #21stcentury

"I wanted to empower people to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness." — Ross Ulbricht (Letter to Judge Forrest, 2015) #freedom #empowerment

"I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking." — Hal Finney (BitcoinTalk Forum, 2010) #bitcoin #banking #gold

"The age of the printable gun has arrived, and there's nothing anyone can do about it." — Cody Wilson (Come and Take It, 2016) #3dprinting