Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

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.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

There's no financial aspect to stats.