It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

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.

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

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

Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.

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

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

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

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.

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

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.

Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter.

CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

Isn't everyone hiding something?

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.