"Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to……" — Aaron Swartz
"Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse."
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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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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit…
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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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More Impressive Quotes
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one of 307 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
— James M. Barrie
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that…
— Robert Benchley
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
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An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6…
— Hugo Chavez
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Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages…
— Eric Alterman
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If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step…
— Maria Montessori
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
— Joseph Epstein
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds…
— Albert Einstein
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