"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."

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Source : Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

Richard Stallman

#Wall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.”
“With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.”
“The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.”
“I do small things. I try to do good things every day.”
“And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I know well that happiness is in little things.”
“Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.”
“There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.”

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