"Every program attempts to expand until it can……" — Jamie Zawinski
"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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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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Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless…
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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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More Attempts Quotes
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
— Jan C. Ting
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
— Harry Vardon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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