Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

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.

The last word in an argument is what a wife has. Anything a husband says after that is the beginning of another argument.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Doubt means you're human - congratulations! It's natural to have these feelings, and if anything makes you humble, just don't be ruled by those emotions.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.