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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
"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 very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term."
"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
"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."
"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."
"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 really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"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."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit."
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
"In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems."
"We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum."
"I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there."
"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free.""
"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."
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
"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."
"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."
"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
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