"A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not……" — Richard Stallman
"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 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”"
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Richard Stallman
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81 Quotes by Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman has 81 quotes on this site.
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The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what…
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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end…
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Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
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Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate…
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People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
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Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to…
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No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
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Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if…
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If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But…
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