I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

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.

Characters are just extensions of my madness.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

Don't stop ever loving me, you can always smoke with me.

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."