Richard Stallman Quotes

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

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
Richard Stallman

Tell, Point, Potential

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

Women, Fashion, Industry

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

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
Richard Stallman

Everything, Cloud, Computing

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
Richard Stallman

Good, Job, Wrong

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Richard Stallman

Good, Become, Reason

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
Richard Stallman

Work, Long, Nothing

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, History, Freedom

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
Richard Stallman

Success, Computers, Freedom

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Richard Stallman

Freedom, Book, Away

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Type: Scientist

Born: March 16, 1953

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