Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

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

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.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

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

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.