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Quotes by Finnish Authors
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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.""
"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."
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"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."
"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."
"Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping."
"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."
"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 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."
"You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term."
"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
"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."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues."
"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."
"I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there."
"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
"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."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
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