Jamie Zawinski Quotes

If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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?

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

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

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

Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

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

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

The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever".

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

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.

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