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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.

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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.

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

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I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

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

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An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

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It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Finnish

Type: Businessman

Born: December 28th, 1969

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