Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

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.

GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

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

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.