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+I met Aaron in 2001, when Aaron was I guess fourteen. I was the Silicon Valley
+correspondent for the Sunday Times, and I wrote the same article as many others
+have written about Aaron's status as a young prodigy in the hallowed halls of
+the world wide web consortium. The editor titled it "teenager in a million",
+which, as is ever the case with editors, was to miss the point.
+
+The point was, Aaron's age didn't matter. While mildly surprised at the
+discovery, his peers at the W3C were not scandalised, or terrified or reached
+for a rule book when they discovered that a key developer of the open web was
+attending high school. They welcomed him. I strongly suspect that they were
+delighted that he surprised them. An institution is not truly open until
+somebody you don't imagine even exists walks through its door.
+
+He told me then "I was worried about revealing my age and did my best to keep
+it a secret. Now, I let my words speak for themselves."
+
+So many words: some written in rhetoric for Congress, some written for
+computers in Python, all of it in plain text, for anyone to read. 
+
+And as if could not read enough words in times, his programs read and scraped
+and parsed the rest. 
+
+He loved beautiful code. The only time I think I really pained him was when I
+said some program he'd written was unreadable. It turned out that it wasn't his
+code at all -- it was code his code had written. And yet it still hurt I think,
+He was disappointed, I think, that his child had not inherited his refined
+sensibilities.
+
+Words fail me now. Try as hard as Aaron always did, you can't encode his
+experiences in words, his moral compass in words, all those connections he made
+in a whole world's web of RDF triplets.
+
+I give you here the look of Aaron's face when he played with my daughter Ada,
+Even at 26 he showed a childish delight then that most of us lose at ten. I
+can't tell you how much he hurt me when he totally destroyed my argument in
+favour of Searle's Chinese Room, that Christmas, and no I will not forget
+Aaron. Or how much pleasure and ease there was to forgive and be forgiven by
+Aaron. No archive can hold those moments.
+
+But if I cannot share with you the code that was Aaron, I can tell you the code
+that makes more Aarons. 
+
+Aaron became Aaron because of his unfettered access to knowledge. Aaron had the
+support of a loving family, who let him fly to meetings, who gave him a
+computer. Aaron had the privileges a young middle class man who lived in United
+States of America gets just by existing. But even so, the gates of knowledge
+had only just then, in that decade, swung wide enough for him to join those
+mailing lists, and let him find and meet and learn from the web's own creators.
+
+And if anything bound together all of Aaron's crusades, it was his belief that
+he was not alone, or exceptional or unique, and that there was more than just
+him out there with his curiousity and talent. 
+
+People say suppose you did free academic knowledge for everyone to read, and
+you put all the law online to read, what tiny fraction would really care -- who
+would really read it, who cannot read it now? 
+
+They forget. They forget that if Aaron was a teenager in a million, that soon,
+very soon, when we have connected seven billion people to each other in the
+great work we strive to build, then there will be 1.2 billion teenagers
+exploring our world.
+
+Even if my editor was right with his odds, which he never was, there's 1200
+Aarons among them.
+
+There is no closed archive, no carefully guarded ivory tower that can seat
+billions. But the open society, the open and world wide web, the free culture
+that Aaron worked for is for them all. And if we give them what they need, give
+them the knowledge to feed their curiousity, and the care that we must never
+forget they need, that army of Aarons will surprise us all.
+
+Aaron told me back in 2001
+"One of the things the web teaches us is that everything is connected
+(hyperlinks) and we all should work together (standards). Too often school
+teaches us that everything is separate and that we should all work alone."
+
+It is never to soon to begin working with the rest of the world. We need to
+stay together, and never ever leave our friends too alone.
+
+    A boy's will is the wind's will
+    And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.