I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.

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.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

I Love you so much, I don't care what you think.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

If you can write it, I can be it.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.

The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.

The more you do, the more you can do.