#he

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

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

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! ↗

— Mario Puzo

#beauty

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#ancient times #authors #copied #copyright #did

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#absolute #best #certainty #ethics #exist

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate. ↗

— Frank Stallone

#bing crosby #crosby #gate #hear #like

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#chair #electric #end #high #high school

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#back #been #dressed #got #i

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#folks #get #got #i #lot

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#after #anything #awful #confess #ever