I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

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.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.

TV is a very sensitive thing. If you're not happy with what you're doing, I don't think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]