I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

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 this under a magnificent blue sky.

and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.

For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.