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.

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

So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

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.