Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

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.

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.