Richard Stallman Quotes

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

Good, Friendly, Terror

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman

Happy, Free, Sometimes

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
Richard Stallman

Friend, Facebook, Engine

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
Richard Stallman

Human, Rights, Correct

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
Richard Stallman

Control, Difficult, Used

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
Richard Stallman

Goal, Enough, Choose

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
Richard Stallman

Women, Fashion, Industry

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman

Best, Whether, Ethics

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
Richard Stallman

Different, Between, System

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

Life, Money, End

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
Richard Stallman

Same, Deserve, Creating

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

Idea, Times, Practice

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Richard Stallman

Long, Step, Phone

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Richard Stallman

Fighting, Danger, Software

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

Freedom, Free, Social

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
Richard Stallman

Moving, Born, Continue

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
Richard Stallman

Freedom, Mean, Either

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
Richard Stallman

Else, Somebody, Hands

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
Richard Stallman

Freedom, Free, Escape

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
Richard Stallman

Power, America, Picture

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
Richard Stallman

Control, Reason, Lose

Proprietary software is an injustice.
Richard Stallman

Injustice, Software

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
Richard Stallman

Good, Technology, Easy

Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
Richard Stallman

Dangerous, Ideas, Software

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
Richard Stallman

Creativity, Desire, General

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Type: Scientist

Born: March 16, 1953

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