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Pavel Durov, is quoted 76 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Telegram, Whatsapp, Surveillance and Risk.

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I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.
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Determine
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I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.
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Beating
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The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.
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Absence

Initiative

Legislative
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I'm a peaceful creature; I'm vegetarian. I don't like wars.
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Peaceful

Creature

Wars
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It's my responsibility to support the team behind Telegram.
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Telegram
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One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.
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Surveillance

Telegram
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I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not afraid to die, if I have to.
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Die

Afraid
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I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.
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Conscience

Ideals
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To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.
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Ready

Risk
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I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.
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Dependent

Outdated
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We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.
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Compromise

Market Share
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The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.
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Big Brother

Conquered

Purely
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Terrorists will always find a way to communicate. They will always find a solution.
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Communicate

Always Will Way

Way Will Always

Solution

Terrorists
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I realized I don't have a safe means of communications. That's how Telegram started.
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Safe

Communications

Realized

Telegram
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I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.
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Government

Society

Decentralized

Role
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Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.
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Profit
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Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.
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Nowhere

Compromises
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Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.
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Surveillance

Whatsapp

Acquired

Facebook

Programs
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Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.
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Greed

Human Rights

Privacy

Rights

Should

Compromised

Human

Sale
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When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it's just wrong.
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Ceo

Established
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Whenever technological advancement is made it can always be used both for good or for bad.
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Advancement

Good Always Bad
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At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.
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Advertising

Income

Luxury

Streams

Telegram
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The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.
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Encryption

Solutions

Terrorism

Proposed
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Our growth relies solely on our users suggesting to their friends to download and use Telegram.
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Growth

Suggesting

Users

Download

Solely

Telegram
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You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.
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Encryption

Secure

People Know Cannot

People Know Some People

Interesting Thing
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We don't put a dollar toward marketing or advertising. I think we're more efficient than Facebook.
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Advertising

Efficient

Marketing

More Than Think

Dollar
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I believe that at some point we should come up with a business model that would make us sustainable.
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Business Believe I Believe

Business Model

Sustainable
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To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.
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Apps

Simply

Messaging
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Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.
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Easier

Healthy

Italian

Italian Food

Simple

Vegetarian

Choose

Menu
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Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.
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Journey

Looking Back

Secure

Whatsapp

Service

Single Day
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WhatsApp deliberately obfuscates their apps' binaries to make sure no one is able to study them thoroughly.
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Apps

Study

Whatsapp

Deliberately

Thoroughly
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Every time WhatsApp has to fix a critical vulnerability in their app, a new one seems to appear in its place.
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Critical

Vulnerability

Whatsapp

App

Fix

Every Time

New One
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We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.
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Betray

Something New
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It's super-interesting to see what it's like to run the most popular social media platform in a country like Iran.
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Iran
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VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API.
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Famous

Developers

Versions

Alternative

Among

Competitions
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Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country.
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Snowden

Welcome
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Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions.
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Dependent
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Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.
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Messages

Whatsapp

Delete

Photos
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If you have WhatsApp and your phone goes down, you don't have access to your messages. You can't send documents and it's not private.
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Documents

Messages

Whatsapp
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In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.
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Users

App

Messaging

Preferred

Refer

Telegram
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The first thing that we wanted to make clear is that nobody has to trust anybody. We don't take people's trust for Telegram for granted.
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Granted

First Thing

Telegram

The First Thing
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For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.
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Losing

Risk

Whatsapp

Authorities

Entire

Service
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There's always a risk that your iPhone can be stolen, and the people who stole it can use the data, your private photos, etc. to blackmail you.
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Etc

Iphone

Always Your People

People Always Your

Photos

Stole
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As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.
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Arabia

China

Entity

Obliged

Offshore

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Rules

Comply

Countries

Saudi
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