I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

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 greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.

In order to live up to your full potential on earth, you must always challenge and replace any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself, ' as though I had any idea who that might be.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.