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

The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

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.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

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.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

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