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“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“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

“I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.”

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

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

“SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!”

Source Humorous Program Checks Motels

Author:Ken Thompson

“It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.”

Thinking Form Mistake Produce Materials Source Solutions Program Argument Code Programmers Trustworthy

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.”

“Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.”

“At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.”

Home Bigs Source Program Radio Classic

Author:Paul Smith

“We have a deal. And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great. That's fabulous. It's unfortunate that we're also bombing Syria together [with Russians], and in my view we need - what we need to do together is create a weapons embargo together and get all the parties with the program here, and also collaborate on a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries that continue to fund terrorist enterprises, the No. 1 source of that being the Saudis.”

“When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.”

Needs Wells Enough Economy Source Program Available Software

Author:Linus Torvalds