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.

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

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.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

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 have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.