Aaron Swartz Quotes

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Aaron Swartz

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 8, 1986

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

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Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.

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Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

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I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.

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Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

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When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

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Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.

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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

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