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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself."
"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."
"Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day."
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
"I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad."
"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
"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."
"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."
"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"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 underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new."
"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."
"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."
"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
"There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is."
"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 decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
"That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well."
"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
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