I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

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.

Damn tricky cats!

Practice begins when you get it right.

I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.