Richard Stallman Quotes

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• Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

  Richard Stallman

  Giving, Fundamentals, Way

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• If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

  Richard Stallman

  Exercise, Yoke, Unjust

  "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.

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• Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

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  Beer, Thinking, Liberty

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

  Richard Stallman

  Crafts, Programming

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• I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Islands, Java

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• Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

  Richard Stallman

  Surveillance, Engines

  "Facebook Is a Surveillance Engine, Not Friend: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation". Interview with Sriram Srinivasan and Sangeetha Kandavel, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 07, 2012.

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• Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

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  Community, Social, Solidarity

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• People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Bullshit, World

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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

  Editors, Use, Want

  YouTube Channel "bfb72"/"Richard Stallman (as St IGNUcius) : Emacs vs Vi", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2008.

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• Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, Jail, Pioneers

  Political notes from 2011, stallman.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

  Richard Stallman

  Hacking, Difficult

  "On Hacking". Personal Website, stallman.org.

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• Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

  Richard Stallman

  Technology, Digital Technology, Digital

  "Technology should help us share, not constrain us" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

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• 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

  Sex, Giving, Trying

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

  Richard Stallman

  Linux, Kernel

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• The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

  Richard Stallman

  Practice, Ideas, Fiction

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.31, Lulu.com

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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.

  Richard Stallman

  Politics, Want, Teach

  "Linŭ, GNU, and freedom". "LinŭWorld", May 2002.

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• Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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  Idiot, Defeated

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• Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

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  Movement, Development, Social

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.43, Lulu.com

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• Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

  Richard Stallman

  Program, Source, Software

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• I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain Unix-compatible software system with BYTE editors". Interview with David Betz and Jon Edwards, www.gnu.org. July 1986.

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• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Friendly, Tactics, Terror

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• I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

  Richard Stallman

  Successful, Thinking, Justice

  "Free Software as a Social Movement". ZNet Article, zcomm.org. December 18, 2005.

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

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  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

  Richard Stallman

  Beautiful, Snow

  Parliament Hill Speech, Ottawa, Canada, June 2, 2009.

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• Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

  Richard Stallman

  Creativity, Society, Use

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.30, Lulu.com

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