Zuhaib Ahmad

“The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“using algorithms as a mirror to reflect the real world isn’t always helpful, especially when the mirror is reflecting a present reality that only exists because of centuries of bias.”
― Hannah Fry, Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

“the truth of my situation: I’m floating around the universe on this giant sphere—suspended here by gravity and going for a ride.”
― Annaka Harris, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind