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Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Programming
Adulation
Most
Because
Expect
Get
Public
Paid
Fun
Program
Programmers
A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.
Tove Jansson
Theatre
People
World
Important
Dared
Could
Like
Most
House
Sort
Because
The Most Important
Where
Wanted
Really
Shown
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Alvar Aalto
Fruit
People
Architecture
Paradise
Build
Every
Our
Earthly
House
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Endeavour
Create
Should
Product
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds
Work
Intelligence
Ability
Doing
Done
Getting
Avoid
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Mika Waltari
Life
Hope
Weary
Too Much
My Life
Seen
Lost
Past
Own
Vain
Too
Other
Dread
Immortality
Kings
My Own
Only
Prey
Write
Writers
Come
Known
Am
Sake
Gods
Differ
Much
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo
Love
Best
Heart
Waiting
Love Is
Way
Best Way
Because
Falling
Falling In Love
Anymore
Laid
Then
Your
Yours
Coffin
Cremated
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
Technology
Evil
Systems
Make
Operating
Operating Systems
Microsoft
Just
Crappy
Really
Any program is only as good as it is useful.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Only
Any
Useful
Program
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
Linus Torvalds
Try
Way
Visions
Easily
More
New
Deal
Up
Anything
Plans
Avoid
You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
Renny Harlin
Never Give Up
You
Challenges
World
Matter
Criticism
Somebody
Healthy
Herd
Else
Follow
Give
Never
Observe
Like
How
Up
Just
Dose
Might
Hard
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
Alvar Aalto
Work
Time
Creative
Architecture
World
Too
Other
Everything
More
Develop
Takes
Develops
Demands
Ideas
Fish
Than
Just
Spawn
Fully
Creative Work
Grown
Speck
Need
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
Aulis Sallinen
Art
Good
Simple
Feel
Powerful
Good Art
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
Harri Holkeri
Rights
Women
Men
Men And Women
Equal
Roles
Different
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 all other management techniques put together.
Linus Torvalds
You
Together
Trust
People
Management
Power
To Be Honest
Other
Having
More
Gives
Fact
Put
Powerful
Over
Another
Lot
Than
Person
Techniques
Honest
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
Linus Torvalds
God
Name
Am
Your
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.
Linus Torvalds
Important
Programs
Secondary
Correctly
Cases
Seems
Part
Most
Important Part
Commercial
The Most Important
Whether
Interface
User
Many
Works
Company
Program
I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.
Linus Torvalds
Good
Think
Good Manager
Has-Been
Fact
Like
Instrumental
Making
Been
Very
Linux
Manager
Successful
Product
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
Linus Torvalds
Work
Me
Feeling
Reputation
Neglecting
Later
Guilty
About
Never
Studies
Part
Although
Without
Enable
Came
Motivator
Fame
Did
Much
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.
Linus Torvalds
Love
Will
Feeling
Air
Spent
Minimal
Possible
Kind
About
Point
Absolutely
Diving
Supply
Longer
Like
Sport
Effort
Move
Where
Little
Your
Whole
Thing
Amount
Last
Flowing
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen
Future
Key
Power
Miracle
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
Tarja Halonen
Creative
Learning
Women
Opportunity
Thrive
Only
Potential
Finland
Counterparts
Male
Common
Century
Use
Full
Guaranteed
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Alvar Aalto
Culture
Architecture
Civilization
Belongs
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto
Nature
Must
Content
Linked
Form
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
Alvar Aalto
Work
Good
Man
Human Being
Simple
Suited
Harmony
Human
Being
Which
Little
Organically
Little Man
Should
Street
Things
Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Alvar Aalto
Daily
Culture
Harmony
Smallest
Chore
Even
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Alvar Aalto
Problem
Problems
Three
Nothing
Every
Other
Hundred
City
Almost
Dealing
Committee
Committees
Just
Just One
Two
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