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In 1971 when I joined the staff of the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab, all of us who helped develop the operating system software, we called ourselves hackers. We were not breaking any laws, at least not in doing the hacking we were paid to do. We were developing software and we were having fun.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman
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Born: March 16, 1953 (age 72)
Bio: Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, rms, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer.
Known for:
  1. Free Software, Free Society (2002)
  2. GNU Emacs Manual (1985)
  3. GNU make (1989)
  4. Bison: The Yacc-Compatible Parser Generator (1992)
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