I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

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.

If you go through the biography of any famous personality you idolize you are sure to see the how the words ‘I can’ and ‘I believe’ played a very vital role in their fame.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

I believe that any doctor that performs an abortion, I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion, should be criminally charged for doing so.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

We're all born bald, baby.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.