1 From: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
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2 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:54:13 +0100
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4 Message-ID: <20130115005413.9KqjTo@silberbruch>
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8 To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
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9 Subject: [.plan] Zitat des Tages
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12 > The conclusion I have arrived at after two days of pondering
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13 > is probably incomplete and may shift with time. Aaron Swartz
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14 > is what I wish I was. I am a bright technologist, but I've
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15 > never built anything of note. I have strong opinions about
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16 > how to improve this world, but I've never acted to bring them
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17 > to pass. I have thoughts every day that I would share with
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18 > the world, but I allow my fears to convince me to keep them
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19 > to myself. If I were able to stop being afraid of what the
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20 > world would think of me, I could see myself making every
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21 > decision that Aaron made that ultimately led to his untimely
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22 > death. This upsets me immensely. I am upset that we have a
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23 > justice system that would persecute me the way it did Aaron.
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24 > I am upset that I have spent 27 years of my life having made
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25 > no discernible difference to the world around me. Most of all
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26 > I am upset that Aaron's work here is done when there is so
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27 > much more he could have accomplished.
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