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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 a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
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Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
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The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. Don't bother us with politics, respond those who don't want to learn.
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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
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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'.
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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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It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have hack value.
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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
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The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere extension language. It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!
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Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
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My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.
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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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