In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

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.

they that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Whatever you've accomplished, there's always more to experience.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.