TOP 20 Richard Stallman Quotes

TOP 20 Richard Stallman Quotes.

“Think ‘free speech,’ not ‘free beer.’”
— Richard Stallman (00:00)

“Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.”
— Richard Stallman (00:07)

“Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.”
— Richard Stallman (00:14)

“Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.”
— Richard Stallman (00:21)

“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 (00:28)

“Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.”
— Richard Stallman (00:35)

“Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.”
— Richard Stallman (00:42)

“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can’t begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can’t see how others have done it.”
— Richard Stallman (00:49)

“I’m always happy when I’m protesting.”
— Richard Stallman (00:56)

“I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.”
— Richard Stallman (01:03)

“There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it’s kernels.”
— Richard Stallman (01:10)

“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 program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.”
— Richard Stallman (01:17)

“To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.”
— Richard Stallman (01:24)

“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 (01:31)

“Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.”
— Richard Stallman (01:38)

“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 (01:45)

“If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.”
— Richard Stallman (01:52)

“Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an end to it, at least in the area of software.”
— Richard Stallman (01:59)

“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 (02:06)

“The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.”
— Richard Stallman (02:13)

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