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Friends share music with each other, they don't allow themselves to be divided by a system that says that nobody is supposed to have copies.

— Richard Stallman LibrePlanet Keynote Speech (2015)

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C++ is a badly designed and ugly language. It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers' feelings.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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