The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

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

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

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.

I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.