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The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. (Richard Stallman)
Freedom and community are important. View quote
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What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. View quote
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I've always lived cheaply. I live like a student, basically. And I like that, because it means that money is not telling me what to do. I can do what I think is important for me to do. It freed me to do what seemed worth doing. View quote
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A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness - not necessarily with computers. View quote
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While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas. View quote
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I want to make sure that all versions of GNU remain free. View quote
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The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. View quote
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When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. View quote
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool. View quote
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Spreading the idea of freedom is a big job - it needs your help. (Richard Stallman)
The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language. View quote
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Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software. View quote
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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. View quote
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Free software permits students to learn how software works. View quote
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In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. View quote
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GNU is not in the public domain. Everyone will be permitted to modify and redistribute GNU, but no distributor will be allowed to restrict its further redistribution. View quote
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For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, Geoff forwarded me a copy of the DEC message, and I eat my words. I sure would have minded it! View quote
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. (Richard Stallman)
Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. View quote
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I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win. View quote
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Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. View quote
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The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says "no" to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing - that the GPL "excludes" some proprietary software developers who "need to be brought into the free software community." But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter. Their decision to make software proprietary is a decision to stay out of our community. Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we cannot "bring them into our community" if they don't want to join. What we can do is offer them an inducement to join. The GNU GPL is designed to make an inducement from our existing software: "If you will make your software free, you can use this code." View quote
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