If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.

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.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

What about you, Sage? I know we don't have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.