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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."
"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."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided."
"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."
"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much."
"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."
"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
"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."
"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal."
"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."
"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
"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."
"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."
"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."
"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
"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."
"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."
"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
"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."
"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."
"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."
"The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies."
"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
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