69 Quotes by Aaron Swartz

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.

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

Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

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

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

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.