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

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

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

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.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”