The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

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.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.