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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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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."
"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."
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"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
"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."
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
"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."
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