"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."

"Proprietary software is a social problem, not just a technical one."

"I'm not a programmer. I'm a software liberationist."

"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.…"

"He figured out a way to make computers that are jails for their users. and make them so shiny that millions of fools would beg to be jailed."