John Wilbanks quotes

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
-- John Wilbanks

#Numbers #People #Increase

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
-- John Wilbanks

#Opposites #Broken

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
-- John Wilbanks

#Moving #Research #Able

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
-- John Wilbanks

#Together #Use #Records

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.
-- John Wilbanks

#Reading #Cost #Movement

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.
-- John Wilbanks

#Naked #Spirit #Existence

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
-- John Wilbanks

#Opposites #Broken

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
-- John Wilbanks

#Together #Use #Records

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.