You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.)… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share
I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary… — Richard Stallman Copy Share
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. — Richard Stallman Copy Share
