"Convenient though it would be if it were……" — Jamie Zawinski
"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 perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla."
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27 Quotes by Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski has 27 quotes on this site.
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I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
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My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
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C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
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It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
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Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all…
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating…
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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,…
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I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
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Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
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I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It…
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To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
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Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
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