Brewster Kahle Quotes

United States, Engineer
October 22, 1960

Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge, and digital librarian. Kahle founded the Internet Archive and Alexa. In 2012 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Also known as Entrepreneur, Activist

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brewster Kahle
- Good
- Smart
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Brewster Kahle
- Great
- Trying
- Library

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle
- People
- Up
- Long
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Brewster Kahle
- Thinking
- Past
We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Brewster Kahle
- Children