Richard Stallman

The point is with a proprietary program, when the users don't have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

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

If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones.

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

I don't think that rape should be treated the same as a momentary touch. People we accuse have a right to those distinctions, so I am careful not to use the term “sexual assault” to categorize the actions of any person on any specific occasion.

“Sexual assault” is so vague that it makes no sense as a charge. Because of that term, we can't whether these journalists were accused of a grave crime or a minor one.

Should we accept stretching the terms “sexual abuse” and “molestation” to include looking without touching? I do not accept it.

It sounds horrible: “UN peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan.” But the article makes it pretty clear that the “children” involved were not children. They were teenagers.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal.

As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie. I find ties uncomfortable, so I don't wear them.

I could dig up some dirt on you if I wanted to.

If you want to understand the universe, you have to understand C.

I don't believe in privacy.

The term 'open source' is a propaganda term for free software.

I don't use a cell phone because I don't want to be tracked.

I don't believe in democracy.