And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.

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.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

No one can help us except our own thoughts.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Society just doesn't care about young people anymore, even if we are the future.

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.