"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating……" — Richard Stallman
"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs."
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
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I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films…
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which…
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
— Henri Bergson
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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
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And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't…
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
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Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.
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