Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.