Jamie Zawinski Quotes

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

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

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.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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