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

"Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."

"Proprietary software is a violation of human rights."

"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 busines…"

"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 b…"