I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

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.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

You change people by delight, by pleasure.