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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
"I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you."
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
"When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs."
"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
"I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness."
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
"Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
"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."
"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."
"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
"The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."
"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
"What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time."
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
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