With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

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.

Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.