Working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.

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'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee, ' he was saying, 'I love ye, ' for the feeling was in the words.

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

What you misplace today, will misplace you tomorrow

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.