“Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you...” — Aaron Swartz 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.”

“Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.”

“Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.”

“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.”

“Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.”

“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.”

“I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.”

“Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.”

“I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.”

“I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.”

“I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.”

“I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!”