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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
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
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
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
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
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
