Richard Stallman quotes - page 5

The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. (Richard Stallman)

Freedom and community are important.

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What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming.

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I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing.

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A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness - not necessarily with computers.

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While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas.

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I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free.

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The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world.

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When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism.

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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool.

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Spreading the idea of freedom is a big job - it needs your help. (Richard Stallman)

The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language.

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Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.

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I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it.

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Free software permits students to learn how software works.

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In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers.

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GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution.

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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.

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Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now.

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Well, Geoff forwarded me a copy of the DEC message, and I eat my words. I sure would have minded it!

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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. (Richard Stallman)

Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy.

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I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.

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Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

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The GNU GPL was not designed to be ""open source"". I wrote it for the free software movement, and its purpose is to ensure every user of every version of the program gets the essential freedoms.

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Richard Stallman

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Occupation: American Scientist
Born: March 16, 1953
Quotes count: 157
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