"To punish people for possessing some sort of published work — whether 'child pornography' or 'terrorist information' or anything else — is simply wrong. And it regularly hurts the innocent."

"I could dig up some dirt on you if I wanted to."

"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…"

"Education should be about freedom, not proprietary software."

"If a program is useful, people will want to use it; if a program is useful and free, people will want to use it more."