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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs."

"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."

"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

"For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have."

"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages."
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"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."

"When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver."

"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."

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

"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."

"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""

"There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is."
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