The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

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.

Pain becomes proud because it believes no one else understands.

The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.

Tell them stories.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.

I'm just me - the way I am.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!