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 Copy Share Image
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use.… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course. — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy.… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
