Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

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

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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.

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.