#comp

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#against #argument #best #compelling #criminal

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#button #computer #even #facebook #get

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#company #data #even #get #instead

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#before #commission #concealment #conspirators #death

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#freedom #judgment #limitations #traps #within

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #chemical #chemist #compounds #consist

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#children #computers #continue #corrupted #dangerous

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#difficult #find #i #playing #very