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Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open Courseware program

— Hal Abelson

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Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.

What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?

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