Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.
Facebook 不是你的朋友，是监控引擎。
关于 Android：
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
计算机行业是唯一一个比女人们的时装更时髦的行业。
关于云计算：
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.
关于云计算，有趣的是我们已经重新定义了云计算来包含我们曾干过的所有事。
关于伦理：
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
无论神存在与否，都没有绝对的伦理道德。没有这份理所当然，我们该如何？也唯有尽善吧。
关于自由：
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
自由软件是尊重个人自由和社会团结的软件。所以才能如自由般自由自在。
关于目标和理想：
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
如果你想为这世界做些什么，仅有理想是不够的，你需要找条通往目标的道路并走完。
关于分享：
Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
分享很棒，而且数字化技术也使分享变得容易。
关于 facebook（进阶版）：
Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
给你个为什么不应该使用 web 应用的理由，因为你失去了计算机的控制权。
If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
如果你使用私有程序或他人的 web 服务器，那么你只能任人鱼肉。被软件的开发者轻易操纵。
关于书：
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
MPAA 其实是美国电影协会，但我认为叫做攻击万物的邪恶力量更为合适。
关于金钱与职业：
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.
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
CD 商店有一个弱势就是需要昂贵的库存，但是电子商店就没有这方面的需求：他们只需要将售卖的副本写入记忆棒，并在你忘带自己的记忆棒时卖你一个就是了。
关于竞争范式：
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
有时会有人问我在 Emacs 的阵营使用 vi 是不是一种罪过。使用自由版的 vi 并不是一种罪过；是一种自我惩罚。所以好好享受其中乐趣吧。
关于自由和历史：
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
历史教会我们：珍惜自由，否则你将失去他。“别和我们谈政治”，对听不进的人这就是答复。
关于专利：
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
和专利一个一个的战斗并不能解决软件专利带来的危害，就像打再多的蚊子也消灭不了疟疾一样。
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.
软件专利对于软件的开发者来说十分危险，因为它们加剧了对于软件理念的垄断。
关于版权：
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.
There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.
劳有所得，或寻求收入的最大化并没有什么错，只要不是不择手段。
关于 Chrome OS：
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.
Chrome OS 确实是 GNU/Linux 的操作系统。但是，它在发布时没有安装常用应用，并为安装他们设置了阻碍。
关于 Linux 用户：
Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'
If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.
如果页面上有 “like” 按键，Facebook 就能知道谁访问了页面。即使不是 Facebook 的用户，也可以得到访问该页面电脑的 IP 地址。
关于编程：
Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.
编程不是科学，编程是手艺。
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.
Lisp 和 C 语言是我的最爱。然自 1992 年以来我主要工作在自由软件活动上，导致我太忙了，没法做更多的编程。大概在 2008 年我便停止了做编程项目。
C++ is a badly designed and ugly language. It would be a shame to use it in Emacs.
C++ 设计的真糟糕、真丑陋。在 Emacs 上用它应该觉得羞愧。
关于钻研和学习编程：
People could no longer learn hacking the way I did, by starting to work on a real operating system, making real improvements. In fact, in the 1980s I often came across newly graduated computer science majors who had never seen a real program in their lives. They had only seen toy exercises, school exercises, because every real program was a trade secret. They never had the experience of writing features for users to really use, and fixing the bugs that real users came across. The things you need to know to do real work.
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have no net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
出于个人原因，我不会在我的电脑上浏览网页。（大部分时间处于没有网络连接的状态。）要浏览网页，我需要给一个守护进程发 mail，然后它会运行 wget 并把页面通过 mail 发还给我。这对我而言已经是最效率了，但那真的比实时慢太多了。
关于音乐共享：
Friends share music with each other, they don't allow themselves to be divided by a system that says that nobody is supposed to have copies.
