The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

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.

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

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.