69 Quotes by Aaron Swartz


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    Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

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    As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

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    But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

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    No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

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    With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

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    What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

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