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The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method. — James Aldridge

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

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. — Gene Spafford

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

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person. — Eric Schlosser

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

She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene. — Drake

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

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

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

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches. — Chuck Wepner

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

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. That's as maybe. But that which does kill us, kills us, and ain't that a bitch ... — Neil Gaiman

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

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice. — John Lothrop Motley

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

Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day. — Heinrich Heine

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. — Ezra Pound

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

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

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

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure. — George F. Richards

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

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

The catheter has a kink," he said. Romy — Kelly St. Clare

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. — Todor Zhivkov

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty. — Andrew Young