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Brewster Kahle Quotes

born 1960 United States

Brewster Kahle (October 22, 1960 –) is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, and activist.

United States
Philanthropists
Software engineers

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If they succeed in destroying our books or even making many of them inaccessible, there will be a chilling effect on the hundreds of other libraries that lend digitized books as we do. This could be the burning of the Library of Alexandria moment—millions of books from our community's libraries—gone.

He [Kahle] noted that libraries historically tend to grow in societies that prioritize education and decline in societies where power is being concentrated, and he’s worried about where the US is headed. That makes it hard to predict if IA—or any library project—will be supported in the long term.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brewster Kahle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.