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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

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

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more. — Jamie Zawinski

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school. — Jamie Zawinski

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. — Jamie Zawinski

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course. — Jamie Zawinski

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. — Jamie Zawinski

Unless you have to, never fight a battle you now you're going to lose. — Patrick W. Carr

Linux is only free if your time has no value. — Jamie Zawinski

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. — Jamie Zawinski

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. — Jamie Zawinski

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. — Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. — Jamie Zawinski

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. — Jamie Zawinski

Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up. — Marketa Irglova

Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned. — Belden C. Lane

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

MADELEINE HERON stared with unfocused eyes at the gleaming gray coffin that held the body of her husband. — S.K. Epperson

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. — Jamie Zawinski

Once a programmer had a problem. He thought he could solve it with a regular expression. Now he had two problems. — Jamie Zawinski

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. — William Zinsser

When all else fails, use the pen.

EMW — Erik Martin Willen

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. — Jamie Zawinski

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. — Jamie Zawinski

I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card. — Jamie Zawinski

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. — Jamie Zawinski

This world by itself is a wonder. — Richard J. Borden

As though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, — Roald Dahl

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan. — Celine Dion

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will. — Corrie Ten Boom

Your needs are big because the Internet is big. — Jamie Zawinski

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it? — Jamie Zawinski

I grew up in Maine working at a video store and found myself being pulled more and more to on-camera stuff. — Timothy Simons

If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now! — Thomas Hardy