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

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

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

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

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.

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.