We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

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

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.