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.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Christ the Lord is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.