mindset Quotes

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.

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

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

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