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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."
"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 went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
"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."
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"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."
"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."
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
"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."
"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."
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"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."
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
"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."
"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
"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."
"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."
"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."
"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."
"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."
"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"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."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"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."
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