Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.

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.

I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.