Technology Quotes by Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

— Richard Stallman

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

— Richard Stallman

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

— Richard Stallman

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

— Richard Stallman

Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

— Richard Stallman

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that…

— Richard Stallman

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

— Richard Stallman

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do,

— Richard Stallman

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it…

— Richard Stallman

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

— Richard Stallman

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be…

— Richard Stallman

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like…

— Richard Stallman

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we…

— Richard Stallman

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that…

— Richard Stallman

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses…

— Richard Stallman

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede…

— Richard Stallman

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.…

— Richard Stallman

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that…

— Richard Stallman

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known…

— Richard Stallman

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can…

— Richard Stallman

EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible…

— Richard Stallman

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the…

— Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— Richard Stallman

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'…

— Richard Stallman

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

— Richard Stallman

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

— Richard Stallman

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel…

— Richard Stallman

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further…

— Richard Stallman

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being…

— Richard Stallman

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful…

— Richard Stallman

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede…

— Richard Stallman

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a…

— Richard Stallman

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner"…

— Richard Stallman

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means…

— Richard Stallman

Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims…

— Richard Stallman

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes…

— Richard Stallman

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at…

— Richard Stallman