To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

The principal lesson of Emacs is that a language for extensions should not be a mere "extension language". It should be a real programming language, designed for writing and maintaining substantial programs. Because people will want to do that!

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

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.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.