Helsinki Quotes

• Helsinki no está tan mal. Es una ciudad muy bonita, y en realidad sólo hace frío en invierno.

  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

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Pero, ¿cómo se puede acelerar la transformación de la sociedad en un país tan grande como Rusia? Los que hacen sonar la alarma moral son los que intentan dictar sus normas desde el exterior. Por supuesto, ese tampoco es el camino correcto. No se puede imponer la democracia desde el otro lado de las fronteras nacionales, algo que nosotros mismos experimentamos durante la era comunista. Las políticas occidentales hacia Europa del Este, el proceso de Helsinki... nada de eso nos ayudó realmente.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Russia, Europe

  "'El pasado es el pasado'". Entrevista con Christian Neef y Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. 13 de marzo de 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

  Fuente: www.ru.j-npcs.org

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