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

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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

There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels