"You know, if you were really going to……" — Richard Stallman

"You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software."

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81 Quotes by Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what…
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end…
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate…
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to…
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if…
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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