Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

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.

a good philosopher always have great reading ability.

We should always live in holiness and reveal the holiness of God to the world

Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.