Helsinki Quotes

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Nice, Cities, Cold

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• 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.

  Linus Torvalds

  California, May, Lasts

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Journey, Order, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry are the ones who are trying to dictate their standards from the outside. Of course, that isn't the right way to go either. One cannot impose democracy from the other side of national borders, which is something we ourselves experienced during the communist era. The West's policies toward Eastern Europe, the Helsinki process - none of that really helped us.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Russia, Europe

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, University, Employed

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• Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Gold

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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Real, Want

  Source: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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