Ignorant is bliss (or not)

"It's one thing not to know something, it's another thing altogether to choose not to know."
-- U.S. Representative Christopher Smith in "Jerry Yang on the Hot Seat," BusinessWeek, November 6, 2007.

Goals in life

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
-- Richard Stallman in "Free Software as a Social Movement," ZNet, December 18, 2005.

Give me liberty or...

I'm a Liberal, in US terms (not Canadian terms). I'm against fascism.
-- Richard Stallman in "Free Software as a Social Movement," ZNet, December 18, 2005.

(Apparently liberalism is not a global unified thing. See Liberalism at Wikipedia.)