Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.