Jamie Zawinski

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

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

— Jamie Zawinski

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it…

— Jamie Zawinski

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power…

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Jamie Zawinski

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software…

— Jamie Zawinski

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it…

— Jamie Zawinski

The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone…

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— 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

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of…

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Jamie Zawinski

I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Jamie Zawinski

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

— Jamie Zawinski