I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

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 keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.