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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemmingway
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.” Blaise Pascal
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” Ayn Rand
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
“Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.” William Penn
“There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.” Freeman Dyson
“You don't know what you can learn until you try to learn.” Ronald Coase
“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain
“Create more value than you capture.” Tim O'Reilly

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Stop S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A.

S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A. are U.S. legislative bills presented as means to protect intellectual property and to stop online “piracy” of digital media. However, behind the labels of these destructive bills lies legislation which is potentially very harmful to how the Internet works to empower individuals, while pandering to certain parties in the movie industry and music industry. It’s no surprise that representatives in Congress would pander to the likes of these skillful and well-funded lobbyists, but the Internet is a valuable, global asset which must not be controlled by special interests.

To be clear, I am against any form of intellectual or creative property piracy, including bit torrents to share music against its creators’ will, using photos without the photographer’s permission, etc. We currently have laws in place against such behavior, but S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A. appear to be designed to simply help U.S. media industry players who refuse to embrace new business models as technology has evolved–at the expense of the entire Internet.

Here’s a great talk by Clay Shirky on TED:

EDIT: I removed the embedded video here because the method TED uses for video embeds is such a drain on resources and loads incredibly slowly. So the link to the talk on the TED website is here, and worth a watch: Link to video on TED

Please inform yourself about S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A. by following the links below, and reach out to your representatives in Washington D.C. to let them know that if they support such rubbish it will cost them their jobs. end of article icon