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.

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.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

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

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

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.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.