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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
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More quotes by Richard Stallman
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.
Richard Stallman
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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
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
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.
Richard Stallman
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?
Richard Stallman
You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
Richard Stallman
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Richard Stallman
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.
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
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
Richard Stallman
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
Richard Stallman
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Richard Stallman
The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
Richard Stallman
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
Richard Stallman
Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
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
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.
Richard Stallman
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.
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
