I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

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.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Shut up and kiss me, Duchess.”“Max!”“All right, I’ll kiss you.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.