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Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Richard M. Stallman
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Richard Matthew Stallman
St. iGNUcius
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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.
Richard Stallman
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
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.
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No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.
Richard Stallman
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.
Richard Stallman
Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
Richard Stallman
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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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Richard Stallman
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.
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
I'm always happy when I'm protesting.
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Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
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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.
Richard Stallman
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
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You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.
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
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Richard Stallman
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.
Richard Stallman
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.
Richard Stallman
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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