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One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
— Richard Stallman
People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.
— Richard Stallman
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
— Richard Stallman
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
— Richard Stallman
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
— Richard Stallman
Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'
— Richard Stallman
One noted software libertarian, Richard Stallman, even refused to protect his account with a password.
— Kevin D. Mitnick
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
— Richard Stallman
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
— Richard Stallman
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
— Richard Stallman
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
— Richard Stallman
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
— Richard Stallman
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
— Richard Stallman
Proprietary software is an injustice.
— Richard Stallman
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.
— Richard Stallman
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
— Richard Stallman
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
— Richard Stallman
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
— Richard Stallman
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
— Richard Stallman
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority
— 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.
— Richard Stallman
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
— Richard Stallman
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
— Richard M. Stallman
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
— Richard Stallman
Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
— Richard Stallman
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
— Richard Stallman
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
— Richard Stallman
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
— Richard Stallman
People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.
— Richard Stallman
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
— Richard Stallman
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
— Richard Stallman
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
— Richard Stallman
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
— Richard Stallman
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
— Richard Stallman
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
— Richard Stallman
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
— Richard Stallman
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
— Richard Stallman
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
— Richard Stallman
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
— Richard Stallman
I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
— Richard M. Stallman
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
— Richard Stallman
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
— Richard Stallman
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
— Richard Stallman
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
— Richard Stallman
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
— Richard Stallman
Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.
— Richard Stallman
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
— Richard Stallman
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
— Richard Stallman
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
— Richard Stallman
No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
— Richard Stallman
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
— Richard Stallman
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
— Richard Stallman
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
— Richard Stallman
The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".
— Richard Stallman
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.
— Richard Stallman
Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
— Richard Stallman
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
— Richard Stallman
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
— Richard Stallman