"And according to the Church of Emacs offering the opportunity to lose Emacs virginity is a blessed act."

"I'm not a communist. I believe in freedom."

"If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an e…"

"I visited the Corning Glass Museum and told them that I could make Pyrex without hardly trying. You see, I've never done baking, so any pies I make will surely be wrecks."

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. … Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of busines…"