Bassel Khartabil quotes

Bassel Khartabil was a Syrian open-source software developer, internet freedom advocate, and cultural activist. His work focused on promoting open culture, digital rights, and the preservation of Syrian cultural heritage. He became a symbol of creative resistance and hope for free expression before his tragic death. Here are 25 of his quotes:

Thanks to the way your brain is wired, you're likely to screw over your future in order to stay loyal to decisions you made in the past. (Bassel Khartabil)
I don't get what is wrong with eating bad junky food all the time! benefits include dying earlier and saving at least 2 hours a day. View quote
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Syrian Tweeps: there is a conf on human rights in silicon valley in 2 days let's use the hashtag #Rightscon to pressure them to unblock us. View quote
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Dubai is now reduced to its component sounds: do-buy. View quote
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want to start building an open source cross-social-networks prediction RESTful API using aiki. View quote
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Life is about relationships. View quote
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HackerSpaces are not for cracking, would you mind googlling that before writing complaints? View quote
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Ideas hate conference rooms. View quote
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Anybody who sends human aid, please make sure that it reaches hungry and homeless people not to people who will rent BMW M3. View quote
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Got a legal approve from the Syrian government for Aiki Lab the first hackerspace in the Arab world. starting very soon in Damascus. View quote
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Life is spent looking while never seeing. (Bassel Khartabil)
Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. View quote
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Sorry, but your system does not meet the minimum system requirements to read this tweet. View quote
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deleted my Yahoo, Hotmail, flickr, digg and stumbleupon accounts one way forward to social freedom. View quote
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Trustonomy: the trust economy. View quote
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Facebook, youtube and Blogspot are officially unblocked in Syria now. YAY!! View quote
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Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. View quote
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scs-net filter (Syrian version of the great firewall of china) is blocking everything. why we can't get a good internet connection in Syria? View quote
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activists who think they are making changes in their countries are not. the people on the ground are the ones who make that #Syria. View quote
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super excited about the change in Syria, no more blocking for social networks!! View quote
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The people who are in real danger never leave their countries. They are in danger for a reason and for that they don't leave. (Bassel Khartabil)
They can't stop us #Syria. View quote
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Enjoying Lebanese Internet :) I didn't think that one day would consider this as fast connection. but 30kbps is great comparing to #syria. View quote
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My dear friend, a doctor and spokeperson of the Physicians' Coordinating Committee in Damascus was killed today by Syrian security forces. View quote
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Bye! Bye! Flash http://www.youtube.com/html5. View quote
Bassel Khartabil

Bassel Khartabil

Bassel Khartabil - Image
Photo: Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0
Born: May 22, 1981
Died: 2015
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Bassel Khartabil