"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."

"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."

"If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an e…"

"I'm not an anarchist. I believe in law, but law that serves freedom."

"The future of computing is free software."