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Danh ngôn của Aaron Swartz (Sứ mệnh: 3)

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.
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
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?
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.