Richard Stallman
Founder of the free software movement and the GNU Project.
Most quoted
"Calling it 'intellectual property' is a propaganda term designed to confuse people into thinking that the various different laws that restrict what you can do with information are all one thing, and that they all have the same moral basis."
— from Various speeches
"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."
— from The GNU Project
"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."
— from Essays
All quotes by Richard Stallman (373)
Computers can do better than we thought they could.
I fight for freedom because I believe in it.
Non-free software makes a dangerous trap for users.
The love of freedom is the essential seed of any good computer programmer.
We need to fight for the users' freedom.
Software patents are weapons against programmers.
I refuse to use proprietary software.
The future of computing depends on free software.
Freedom is having control of your own life.
Humor is a way to make points without being boring.
I am a fanatic for freedom.
The right to privacy is a fundamental human right.
Programming is like art; it's creative.
We must reject the idea that software is a commodity.
Life is too short for proprietary software.
The GNU project is my life's work.
Censorship is a threat to freedom.
I enjoy hacking for fun and freedom.
Open source misses the point of freedom.
Technology should serve people, not enslave them.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).