“I think there should be an open system, period…I think education should be free. And there are a lot of ways of organizing it, but it should be geared to the ideal of helping each person, each student, achieve their goals in the best way.” – Noam Chomsky
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.” – Norman Doidge
“Control over the use of one’s ideas really constitutes control over other people’s lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.” – Richard M. Stallman, pioneer of Free and Open Source Software
“Software patents are a huge potential threat to the ability of people to work together on open source. Making it easier for companies and communities that have patents to make those patents available in a common pool for people to use is one way to try to help developers deal with the threat.” – Linus Torvalds, developer of the Free and Open Source Software program Linux
“The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.” – Herbie Hancock
“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novely.” – Neils Bohr
“Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.” – Rumi
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell