Brewster Kahle
1960
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Biography
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian known for founding the Internet Archive in 1996. He has been a pioneer in digital preservation, archiving billions of web pages, books, and media to make them freely available to the public. Kahle is a strong advocate for open access to knowledge and information, believing in the power of universal access to transform society for the better.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Universal access to all knowledge is possible. It may not happen tomorrow, but I think we have problems that are solvable and that it is certainly possible to overcome them.
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Let's support public access to information. It's like public health or public education; it should be a public good. It should be limitless and free to all.
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We need people to try things even if they're not sure it's going to work.
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Building libraries, creating an Internet that is not centralized but distributed, these are the grand challenges of our time.
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Access drives preservation. If we want to preserve something, you have to be able to access it.