Richard Stallman on Power
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Richard Stallman, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Richard Stallman, entry #53009: "If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the progr…"
Attributed to Richard Stallman, entry #64484: "Programming is programming. If you get good at programming, it doesn't matter which language you learned it in, because you'll be able to do programming in any language. The hard …"
2 Quotes by Richard Stallman on Power
"If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power."
"Programming is programming. If you get good at programming, it doesn't matter which language you learned it in, because you'll be able to do programming in any language. The hard part of programming is the same regardless of the language. And if you have a talent for that, and you learned it here, you can take it over there. Oh, one thing: if you want to get a picture of a programming at its most powerful, you should learn Lisp or Scheme because they are more elegant and powerful than other languages."