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“It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.”

Care Stuff Wonderful Program Relief Users Small Stuff

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.”

Source Program Code Features Software Users Malicious

Author:Richard Stallman

“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.”

Ifs Exercise Program Instruments Owners Over It Software Users Entity Unjust Yoke

Author:Richard Stallman

“The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.”

World Ideas Three Dangerous Type Program Iron Users Patches Programmers Dangerous Things Hardware Wizardry

Author:Rick Cook

“I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.”

People Ifs Way Want Break Share Program Agree Refuse Golden Conquer Divides Software Users Solidarity Golden Rule Sellers

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.”

Ifs Feels Different Feelings Past Universe Possibility Computer Creating Built Program Machines Function Users Pseudo Time Machine Spatial Different Feelings

Author:Kedar Joshi

“There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.”

“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.”

“Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.”

Should Mistake Program Corporate Mechanism Users Efficiency Units Effectiveness Overhead

Author:Geoffrey Moore

“In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.”

Important Seems Company Cases Economy Program Users Interfaces User Interface

Author:Linus Torvalds

“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”

Wells Program Behave Programming Users Interfaces User Interface

Author:Joel Spolsky

“The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user”

Use Demand Program Users

Author:Eric S. Raymond