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" Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. "

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" Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral. "

" I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. "

" There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. "

" 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. "

" The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. "

" I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' "

" I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. "

" I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. "

" The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children. "

" A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one. "

" That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. "

" Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well. "

" Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day. "

" In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. "

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" I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. "

" I don't see myself as a visionary at all. "

" Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. "

" Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer. "

" I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. "

" In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. "

" I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. "

" Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. "

" The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. "

" I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area. "

" I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more. "

" I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. "

" Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. "

" In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. "

" Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed. "