Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

—Lawrence Lessig in The Future of Ideas as stolen by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstacy of Influence — Lessig wrote in response: “But I confess I was troubled by the link between the creativity evinced in [Lethem’s] essay and ‘plagiarism’—especially troubled when I found buried in the text the only sentence I have ever written that I truly like. (Which sentence will remain a mystery here.)”