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Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

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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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 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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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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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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The GNU GPL was not designed to be open source.
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I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.
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All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
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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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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.
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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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Open source is a development methodology free software is a social movement.
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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.
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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
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There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
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If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
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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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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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