Richard Stallman

In the church of Emacs we have a great sism between several versions of Emacs.

To join the Church of Emacs, one needs only pronounce the Confession of the Faith; it starts like this: 'There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.'

And according to the Church of Emacs offering the opportunity to lose Emacs virginity is a blessed act.

Apple fanboys are foolish people.

He figured out a way to make computers that are jails for their users. and make them so shiny that millions of fools would beg to be jailed.

Perhaps we should implement a mode that puts cosmetics on Emacs so it will appeal to those who judge by the surface of things.

I accomplish mirth. That's the hacker spirit—Ha Ha, Only Serious.

Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program.

The point of this joke is even more important now than it was when I first wrote it.

I exercise my authority over glibc very rarely – and when I have done so, I have talked with the official maintainers. So rarely that some of you thought that you are entirely autonomous. But that is not the case.

I'm not a communist. I believe in freedom.

If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

Copyleft is a legal tool to ensure that every user of a program has freedom.

Calling it 'open source' is like calling freedom 'openness'.

I don't use a cell phone. I don't use a credit card. I don't use a loyalty card. I don't use a social network.

Microsoft is not evil. It's just a company that wants to make money.

The internet is a surveillance engine.

Using proprietary software is like living under a dictatorship.

I wish I could say that I was a prophet, but I'm not. I'm just an ordinary person who sees what's going to happen.

The proper term is 'GNU/Linux', not 'Linux'.