Antonio Guterres

Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.

Portuguese Politician

Asif Ali Zardari

If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

Pakistani Politician

Patrick M. Byrne

The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

American Businessman

John Yoo

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

American Educator

The governments of south Sudan must make sure that everybody will get a nationality - that nobody will become stateless because of this separation.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

Morley Safer

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

Canadian Journalist

Edward Snowden

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

American Activist

Stateless individuals often face legal challenges since they have no country to grant them rights or protection.

Legal Plight

Being stateless can be a humanitarian concern as these individuals may lack basic human rights.

Humanitarian Issue

Without a nationality, stateless people find it difficult to travel since they usually lack a passport.

Travel Restrictions

In computing, a stateless process doesn't keep user data between sessions, ensuring privacy.

No User Tracking

Stateless systems are easier to scale since each request is treated as an independent transaction.

Simplified Scaling

Stateless systems can perform better because they don't waste resources on storing session information.

Efficient Performance

 stateless somebody once said al Qaeda does not have a return address so if they attacked us with a nuclear weapon what's the response and to whom is the response and their retaliation proof since there is no real retribution possible that would make any difference since there are people willing to

Surviving a nuclear...

 and how to deal with brokenness, lay under the rubble for three and a half hours without rescue. Stateless. The guy who tried to help the stateless people his whole career. Like a refugee. Because he represents the U.N. If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one.