Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate’s truest champion of an open Internet. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
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. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
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? Aaron Swartz Read Quote
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. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
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. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it – their shareholders would revolt at anything less. Aaron Swartz Read Quote
