"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for……" — Richard Stallman
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
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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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More Destructive Quotes
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive…
— Alain Badiou
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
— Russell Brand
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
— A. S. Byatt
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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way…
— Nicolas Cage
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive…
— Nick Cave
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
— William Cobbett
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they…
— Carl Jung
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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