Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

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.

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

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It’s in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.