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" Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. "

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" I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. "

" I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. "

" 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. "

" I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product. "

" If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad. "

" I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. "

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

" Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life. "

" I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. "

" I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. "

" Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. "

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

" The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. "

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

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

" Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. "

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

" 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. "

" Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. "

" To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together. "

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

" People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. "

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

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

" See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. "

" I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. "

" I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. "

" 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. "

" By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them. "

" I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do. "