commit d762c3c390f88d26a733c44e732266c8c0a8dbd8
parent 67d695540129640497289aded7d6e6099eccbb1e
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb54@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:22:54 -0700
Some RMS quotes
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1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
@@ -95,14 +95,14 @@
"The beauty of me is that I'm very rich" - Donald Trump
"In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history" - Donald Trump
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" - Martin Luther King Jr.
-"Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness" - Martin Luther King Jr.
+"Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against" - Martin Luther King Jr.
+"Today capitalism has outlived its usefulness" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Privileged classes do not give up their privileges voluntarily" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another" - Milton Friedman
"Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me" - Linus Torvalds
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program" - Linus Torvalds
"If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect" - Linus Torvalds
-"Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce" - Linus Torvalds
"I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual" - Linus Torvalds
"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it" - Linus Torvalds
"If the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C" - Linus Torvalds
@@ -115,3 +115,10 @@
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another" - Anatole France
"It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live" - Anatole France
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory" - Friedrich Engels
+"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
+"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" - Richard Stallman
+"Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement"
+"I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win" - Richard Stallman
+"People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world" - Richard Stallman
+"You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast" - Richard Stallman
+"I'm not asking you to call it 'Stallmanix' right?" - Richard Stallman
