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

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

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

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

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