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Quotes About Open access

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.
~ Ajit Pai
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
~ Thomas Watson
She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
~ Ally Carter
Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can read as many papers as they want for free, and sending donations is their free will. Why Elsevier cannot work like this, I wonder?
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
~ Richard Stallman
While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
~ Naval Ravikant
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
~ Mitch Kapor
I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other facets of society, and this includes open access to all of the many available types of information.
~ Robert David Steele
If the great thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone, the bad thing about the Internet is that it throws wide the doors of discussion to everyone.
~ Howard Jacobson
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
~ Aaron Swartz
I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books, but maybe in a more ambitious way.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
When you put together open medicine, open science, open access, open source, and open data—Open5—all sorts of new channels of research activity become available, and existing ones become exponentially more powerful.
~ Eric Topol
Information wants to be free. Believe it.
~ Bruce Sterling
Information wants to be free.
~ Stewart Brand
DeFi is unique relative to the traditional financial system because it is permissionless, open access, global, composable, and transparent. No longer are centralized institutions needed for basic financial actions.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
The most important thing to remember here is that the Internet is not broken, and all of the innovation that we've seen since inception has been based on it being free and open.
~ Brian Schatz
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
~ Aaron Swartz
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
~ Al Franken
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
~ Al Franken
The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.
~ Marvin Ammori
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
~ Walt Whitman
researchers at the height of the coronavirus crisis were posting more than a hundred papers a day on preprint servers, such as medRxiv and bioRxiv, that were free and open
~ Walter Isaacson