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)
I don't use email clients that aren't free.
The digital age needs digital rights.
Wisdom comes from understanding software's impact on society.
Jokes about Microsoft are my favorite.
My beard is a symbol of resistance.
Free software is a moral imperative.
In computing, ethics matter more than ever.
I reflect on how far we've come in freedom.
Politics in tech is unavoidable.
Art and code are intertwined.
Humor helps in the fight for freedom.
Life's meaning is in contributing to freedom.
Science progresses through sharing knowledge.
Wisdom is knowing when to say no to non-free.
I once hacked the system for the greater good.
Philosophy guides my every line of code.
Politics of software affect us all.
A good joke lightens the load of activism.
In life, freedom is the ultimate goal.
The 'free' in 'free software' refers to freedom, not price.
Contemporaries of Richard Stallman
Other Computer Sciences born within 50 years of Richard Stallman (1953).