Richard Stallman Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Purpose, Lists, Computer

• Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

  Richard Stallman

  Believe, Helping, Computer

• A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Community, Mit

  Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing, www.gnu.org. 1996.

• I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Skills, Different

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.102, Lulu.com

• 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

  Running, Real, Use

• 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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