Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

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.

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

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.

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