Best Richard Stallman Quotes
- Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to… Businesses
- To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in… Able
- Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. Bother
- Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it. Admit
- I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought… Anymore
- In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and… Birth
- Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. Believe
- If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the… Accomplish
- I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control… Allowed
- EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset,… Anyone
- Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. Contribution
- If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. Decrease
- Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in… Beer
- Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam,… Art
- GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give… Away Free
- You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. Inspirational
- We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom… Care
- People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that. Behavior
- I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would… Alternative
- I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage… Advantage
- Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft. Craft
- It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That… Contributing
- The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists. Adobe
- 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 non-free… Activity
- 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 to put an… Aim
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