Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

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.

I could die a million times if my death would be the reason our love would live forever.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

What can we do to make the world's children a priority.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.