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Jamie Zawinski
26 quotes
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview in June 1998; he later claimed that "Bits and pieces of this article have been quoted out of context in lots of places
“Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a comment on his site in 2000
“Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've noticed that when I get quoted in .sig files, it's never any of the actual clever things I say all the time. Usually it's something dumb.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever".”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your needs are big because the Internet is big.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing comes for free.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are … something else entirely.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But instead I'm stuck inside under fluorescent lights, pushing bits around inside a computer in ways that are only interesting to other nerds.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self hosting email is like pounding needles into your eyes. You should never do that. Pay someone else to pound those needles so you can just lie back and enjoy it.”
Jamie Zawinski (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source