I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

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.

Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.