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.

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

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.

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

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.

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.