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"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."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"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."
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."
"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."
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
"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."
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
"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."
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