"I've called him a 'serial rapist', and said he deserved to be imprisoned. But many people now believe I defended him — and other inaccurate claims — and feel a real hurt because of what they believe I…"

"The term 'open source' is a betrayal of the free software movement."

"I don't smile artificially for photos because such smiles look insipid to me. Old photos from before 1950 seem much more dignified because the subjects did not smile. I'd rather be photographed that w…"

"To join the Church of Emacs, one needs only pronounce the Confession of the Faith; it starts like this: 'There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.'"

"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign. … Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of busines…"