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- The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce…
- Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.
- We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
- All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
- Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
- I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people…
- Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I…
- 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…
- Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
- The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
- I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people…
- In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have…
- To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than…
- What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the…
- Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle