When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock.

Paul Cook

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoug

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

Garrett Morris

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Ezra Pound

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It?s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!

Robert H. Schuller

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

Bashar al-Assad

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

Daniel Goleman