If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

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.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

Hopefully we'll be doing this forever, but we'll only have one first time.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

In this world, only winter is certain

Anything worth having has its price.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'