Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

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

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

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