I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

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.

What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life.

Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture!

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.