Aaron Swartz

Name: Raw Thought, Raw Nerve
ISBN: 9781788949972

Businessman

1986-11-08 – 2013-01-11

Aaron Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, and internet activist who helped shape early web standards and open-information movements.

Books by Aaron Swartz

The Boy Who Could Change the World

The Writings of Aaron Swartz
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Aaron Swartz's The Programmable Web

An Unfinished Work
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Raw Thought, Raw Nerve

Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz: Not-For-Profit - Revised Fourth Edition
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Quotes by Aaron Swartz

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 they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.
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Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
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I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. I don't like excluding people. I'm a perfectionist, but I won't let that get in the way of publication. Except for education and entertainment, I'm not going to waste my time on things that won't have an impact. I try to be friends with everyone, but I hate it when you don't take me seriously. I don't hold grudges, it's not productive, but I learn from my experience. I want to make the world a better place.
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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 they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.
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I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. I don't like excluding people. I'm a perfectionist, but I won't let that get in the way of publication. Except for education and entertainment, I'm not going to waste my time on things that won't have an impact. I try to be friends with everyone, but I hate it when you don't take me seriously. I don't hold grudges, it's not productive, but I learn from my experience. I want to make the world a better place.
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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?
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Big stories need human stakes.
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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.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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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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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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