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

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

EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

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.