In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

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

What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.