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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall."
"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won."
"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."
"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do."
"I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up."
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
"The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children."
"Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests."
"Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame."
"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed."
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
"You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile."
"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money."
"In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds."
"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."
"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."
"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."
"I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day."
"Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge."
"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."
"Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how."
"During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come."
"I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly."
"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind."
"When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good."
"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds."
"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
"A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one."
"Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity."
"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
"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."
"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden."
"Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results."
"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."
"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places."
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