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Richard Stallman Quotes

Some of Richard Stallman quotes : * Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. * People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that. * 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. * People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. * You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi is the text editor of the beast. * Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents; any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. * Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but...