So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

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

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'