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.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

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.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Every girl dreams of waking up one day, a princess. Until that day kicks you in the face, wearing steel toed boots.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.