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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
"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."
"I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product."
"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."
"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."
"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."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it."
"I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much."
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
"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."
"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've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
"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."
"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."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."
"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."
"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
"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."
"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."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
"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."
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