If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.

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.

In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road... So before any decisions think carefully.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.