Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

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.

Life is an experimental field.

History is the same story with different costumes.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

What happens if I do nothing?

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.