"The idea of copyright did not exist in……" — Richard Stallman
"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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