The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

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.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

But few prize honour more than money.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.