Richard Stallman

Cooking that makes you sick is called queasine.

McDonald's sells 'fast food', so called because it is made for not eating.

I decided not to have children. (...) Not having children is an important contribution to humanity. My decision probably reduced the 2050 population by 5 to 10 people.

As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie. I find ties uncomfortable, so I don't wear them. (...) I think the tie means, 'I will be so subservient as an employee that I will do even totally senseless things just because you tell me to.'

Well I guess it probably was Funny on my shoulder. Funny is a cockatiel parrot… That likes to lick my hair. (...) I guess I just felt loved. (...) Sometimes I feel admired, but that's different from being loved.

…and do not post it to YouTube, as it doesn't work with free software!

If battered shrimps are your interest, we should have some here soon.

throw Windows out of the computer, or the computer out the Window.

It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. … Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

My Saint iGNUcius comedy routine consists of a series of jokes about the fictional Church of Emacs that humorously compare ideas of the free software movement with real aspects of various world religions.

When I introduced the Virgin of Emacs as a character into the routine, she was female because she was an allusion to the Virgin Mary, and an 'Emacs virgin' in the sense that she had never used Emacs.

I wouldn't accept a jailbroken iPad because it still would have proprietary software in it so it would still be an ethical a giant ethical step down from where I am now and I wouldn't do that.

I dislike c…rap music.

I don't smile artificially for photos because such smiles look insipid to me. Old photos from before 1950 seem much more dignified because the subjects did not smile. I'd rather be photographed that way.

'Breakfast'? Is that the thing some people eat in the 'morning'?

None of my shirts carry messages (such as words or symbols). That practice strikes me as lacking dignity, almost like being a sandwich man, so I won't wear clothing with symbols, not even for causes I support.

The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy.

Even I, the only man in the world who can get angry from looking at a picture of a penguin, find this bad news.

The only way to keep something from being copied is to make it so bad it's not worth copying.

The idea that music is private property took hold in the digital age, but it is an absurd and unjust idea.