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

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I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

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

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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.

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Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

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I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

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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.

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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

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Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Businessman

Born: December 28th, 1969

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