Jamie Zawinski Quotes

I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)

Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

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

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

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

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

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

But instead I'm stuck inside under fluorescent lights, pushing bits around inside a computer in ways that are only interesting to other nerds.

Nothing comes for free.