A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

You must always see your loneliness as an opportunity to meet something good unexpected, something new unknown before, something interesting not happened yet!

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.