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Technology Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

12 Technology quotes by Jamie Zawinski

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Jamie Zawinski’s take on tech is peppered with humor and a healthy dose of skepticism. Though the collection is modest, each of the twelve snippets captures his signature blend of sarcasm and insight, making it a handy primer for anyone curious about his perspective on software development.

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Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

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I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of…

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

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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

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

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Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on…

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Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application,…

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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that…

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On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the…

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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't…

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Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use.…

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

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

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Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

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It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

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I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what…

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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…

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The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

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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.…

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Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because…

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

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Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

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Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI…

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If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over…

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Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I…

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