Quotes by Aaron Swartz

About Aaron Swartz:

Aaron Hillel Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.

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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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Big stories need human stakes.

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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.

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

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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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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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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

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

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

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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

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Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and...

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Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

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Author Bio

  • NameAaron Swartz
  • Descriptioncomputer programmer and internet-political activist
  • AliasesSwartz, Aaron; Aaron H. Swartz; AaronSw
  • BornNovember 8, 1986
  • DiedJanuary 11, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionProgrammer; Writer; Internet Activist
  • AwardsEFF Pioneer Award