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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
"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."
"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."
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
"The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays."
"I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business."
"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."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
"There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes."
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
"That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens."
"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
"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."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people."
"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."
"So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
"It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation."
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
"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."
"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."
"The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality."
"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."
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