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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.
Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 16
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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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Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.
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Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.
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