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

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

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

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

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.