reflection Quotes

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

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

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

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

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.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.