"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not……" — Jamie Zawinski
"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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27 Quotes by Jamie Zawinski
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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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