I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

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

Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

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.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.