Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

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.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

The best ideas are common property.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface