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

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

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

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

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

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