I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

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.

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.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.