In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

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.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.