No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Who can resist when destiny calls?

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

Death laughs when old women frolic.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

Lord, let me live until I die.