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Would a dating service for people on the net be frowned upon by DCA? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one.

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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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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.
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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.
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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 I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
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Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
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Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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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. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
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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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