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

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.

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.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Don't let a bad review get you down. You can't always please everyone.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

A Little Birdie Told Me It's Your Birthday! So Enjoy Your Special Day!

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.