Brewster Kahle quotes

Brewster Kahle is an American businessman and computer engineer, best known as the founder of the Internet Archive. His work focuses on providing universal access to knowledge by preserving digital content such as websites, books, and audio recordings. He has played a key role in promoting open access to information and fostering digital preservation worldwide. Here are 6 of his quotes:

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Brewster Kahle

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

The United States, as you point out, has been actually freer than most in terms of offering access to information. It doesn't have to be this way. Openness is not the default in terms of how if you look back in time, or even around the world. We need to show how openness works better. That you end up with companies that thrive better. That you have, with standards, you have more competition that builds more jobs. That openness is a win.

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My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brewster Kahle

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

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