The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

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.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

If our petitions are in accordance with His will and if we seek His glory in the asking the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Nancy, an attractive titian blond, grinned up at her friend.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.