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.

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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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