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.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

Prayer fuels power for life.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same