"Whether gods exist or not, there is no……" — Richard Stallman
"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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