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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.

Richard Stallman

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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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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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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
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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.
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I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
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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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Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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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.
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The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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