"So, make a real effort to avoid getting……" — Richard Stallman
"So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life."
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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 keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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