The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

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

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.