If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the pr…

- Richard Stallman

I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.

- Richard Stallman

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

- Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

- Richard Stallman

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

- Richard Stallman

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

- Richard Stallman

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

- Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

- Richard Stallman

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

- Richard Stallman