"CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive……" — Richard Stallman
"CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own."
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81 Quotes by Richard Stallman
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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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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.…
— John Banville
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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
— Heinz Pagels
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Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.
— Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
— David Almond
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I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made…
— Jerry Pinto
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Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my…
— Tim Waterstone
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was…
— Jules de Goncourt
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
— John Cowper Powys
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My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile,…
— Tim Waterstone
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't…
— Frederick Busch
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