I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

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 really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.