Richard Stallman Quotes

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

Richard Stallman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
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  • Birth: March 16, 1953

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'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Jessye Norman

KindnessFriendWisdomWiseReading

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

John Delaney

ChangeChallengeEnvironmentalLate

I'm not in charge of my life.

Jennifer Weiner

LifeMy LifeCharge

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Stephen Frears

MeYouGoTeachWayMore

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

Srikumar Rao

BestAcceptanceYouTryMeanNeed

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

Stacie Orrico

FamilyGodMomPressureCareerEven

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.

Robert Fisk

SonBookSpeakInformationNewDead

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Jon Glaser

FunThinkRealityOutShowSet

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Drew Barrymore

MotivationalLifeLoveMyselfMe

Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

Bryan Callen

CarHorseYouGoWantUp

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Arnold Palmer

FearMoneyFlyFlyingBetterEarly

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

Payne Stewart

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