I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

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.

Image is everything, self image that is.

You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!

You put quite a fight for a tame kitty

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.