Jamie Zawinski Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are … something else entirely.