I have one very basic rule when it comes to "good ideas". A good idea is not an idea that solves a problem cleanly. A good idea is an idea that solves several things at the same time. The mark of good coding is not that the program does what you want, it's that it also does something that you didn't start out wanting.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

No problem is too big it can't be run away from

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

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.