http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman <br />Richard Stallman's Personal Site: http://stallman.org/ <br /> <br />Quotes by RMS: <br />"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights." <br /> <br />"Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic." <br /> <br />"'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'." <br /> <br />"Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance." <br /> <br />"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." <br /> <br />"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs." <br /> <br />"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough, you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic." <br /> <br />"I'm always happy when I'm protesting." <br /> <br />"Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air." <br /> <br />"Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking." <br /> <br />"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity." <br /> <br />"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way." <br /> <br />"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness." <br /> <br />"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive." <br /> <br />Originally uploaded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuqUJ3MsEs
