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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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"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.""
People
"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
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"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
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"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
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"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
People
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
Technology
"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."
People
"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."
People
"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
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"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor."
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Personal Development
"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
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Personal Development
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."
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"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
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"If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope."
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