Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.