There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

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.

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

Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.