An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

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.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

You need to update your blog a couple of times a week. You need to post a Twitter here and there. It feels so dumb to say that stuff, but it's important for me to keep that presence going.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.