Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

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.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.