Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization. - Hal Abelson

Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open Courseware program

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement

What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes.