I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

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.

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.