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

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

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

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

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.