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.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.