UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

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

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.