Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

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.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.