Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. So… - Jamie Zawinski

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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.

Jamie Zawinski

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About Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski (JWZ; born November 3, 1968) is a computer programmer known for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser.

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Alternative Names: jwz • James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski

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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.

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

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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 engine… - Jamie Zawinski

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