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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."
"Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind."
"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."
"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 the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
"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 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."
"These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound."
"You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions."
"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex."
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
"I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker."
"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."
"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."
"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 do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly."
"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."
"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy."
"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
"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.""
"Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is."
"My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting."
"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 very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"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."
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
"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."
"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."
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