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“In other words, instead of providing a place for a group of like-minded people to come together, magazines provide a sampling of what a group of like-minded people might say in such an instance so that you can pretend you’re part of them.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Indeed, school was so important that the mill owners quickly decided to make it mandatory. “No language of ours can convey too strongly our sense of the dangers which wait us from [those who] are not and have never been members of our public schools,” warned the Lowell School Committee. Universal schooling is “our surest safety against internal commotions.”‡”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

“a piece of knowledge, unlike a piece of physical property, can be shared by large groups of people without making anybody poorer.”
― Aaron Swartz, The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz