"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves."

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Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

Aaron Swartz

#Want Quotes #Information Quotes

“I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.”
“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.”
“Iâ€™m rollinâ€™ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. Iâ€™m the only son of the devil.”
“You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. â€¦ You are captivesâ€”and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?â€”your captivity and the captivity of the world.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam
“Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.”

Source : "How can I sex up this blog business?" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. June 01, 2004.
“I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers”
“Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.”

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