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.

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.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.