#id

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things? ↗

— Layne Staley

#dead #else #find #found #i

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#ideas #more #our #powerful #should

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#count #decide #election #people #votes

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#control #difficult #ideas #lives #make

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. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#back #building #career #code #could

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. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#achieve #choose #enough #goal #idealism

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#ethical #go #long #long way #major

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#android #because #between #common #component

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#free #free software #freedom #our community #respects

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright