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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Trust, Powerful, Appreciate

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Mean, Simple

  "On Hacking". stallman.org. 2002.

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• Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

  Richard Stallman

  Learning, Awards, Giving

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• By the way, I hope you all know about the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola company for things like murdering union organizers in Colombia. See the site killercoke.org.

  Richard Stallman

  Unions, Way, Coca Cola

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• So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.

  Richard Stallman

  Real, People, Effort

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.133, Lulu.com

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• For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Real, Use

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• In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

  Richard Stallman

  Movement, Software, Libre

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Technology, Law

  "Stallman's Law". www.gnu.org. 2012.

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• People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

  Richard Stallman

  Government, People, Deserve Better

  "Sayings" at Richard Stallman's personal site, www.stallman.org. October 24, 2001.

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• The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

  Richard Stallman

  Law, Ideas, Justice

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.157, Lulu.com

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• A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

  Richard Stallman

  People, Together, Wealth

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• I'm always happy when I'm protesting.

  Richard Stallman

  Always Happy

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• Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

  Richard Stallman

  Creativity, Society, Use

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

  Richard Stallman

  Way, Ethics, Absolute Certainty

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot.org Interview, slashdot.org. May 01, 2000.

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

  Richard Stallman

  Rights, Government, Abuse

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

  Richard Stallman

  Phones, Long, Way

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.

  Richard Stallman

  Moving, People, Born

  "Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

  Richard Stallman

  Different, Littles, Androids

  "Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

  Richard Stallman

  Clouds, Interesting, Cloud Computing

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

  Richard Stallman

  Lasts, Survivor, Culture

  "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 19, 2010.

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• To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Able, Masters

  "The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom". Richard Stallman's lecture in Zagreb, Croatia, fsfe.org. March 9, 2006.

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• Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

  Richard Stallman

  Friendly, Tactics, Terror

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• 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.

  Richard Stallman

  School, Helping Others, Should Have

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