"Being around some of the bright lights of……" — Aaron Swartz
"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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39 Quotes by Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz has 39 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to…
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I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition…
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need…
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural…
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge -…
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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…
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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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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more…
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You…
— Anthony Bourdain
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing…
— Madeleine Albright
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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it…
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
— John Cleese
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