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

Jamie Zawinski

alt.religion.emacs http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com (lost; recovered http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Attributed

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

Jamie Zawinski

" resignation and postmortem http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html" (essay)

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

Jamie Zawinski

http://www.jwz.org/doc/iwtbf.html
JWZ
IWTBF.

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

Jamie Zawinski

DNA Lounge blog http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18

“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

http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/signatures.txt
PP
RU
Texts
Signatures.

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

Jamie Zawinski

" Groupware Bad http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html" (essay)

Jamie Zawinski Quotes about people

Jamie Zawinski

http://www.jwz.org/doc/markup.html
JWZ
Markup.

“If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”

Jamie Zawinski

JWZ
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Groupware.

“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.”

Jamie Zawinski

JWZ
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Groupware.

Jamie Zawinski Quotes about the trip

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

Jamie Zawinski

http://inkee.org/quote/dnaquotes.txt
DNA quotes
Inkee.

“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.”

Jamie Zawinski

" http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getting-it-right-the-first-time-is-that-nobody-realizes-how-hard-it-was/" (About Ubuntu Bug)

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

Jamie Zawinski

JWZ
https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html
NSCP Dorm.

Jamie Zawinski Quotes

“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.”

Jamie Zawinski

XKeyCaps http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ homepage

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

Jamie Zawinski

alt. religion. emacs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76

“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.”

Jamie Zawinski

In a comment http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html on his site in 2000

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

Jamie Zawinski

In an interview http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html in June 1998; he later claimed that "Bits and pieces of this article have been quoted out of context in lots of places"

Time

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

Jamie Zawinski

" don corleone http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html" (essay)

School

“I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away.”

Jamie Zawinski

DNA Lounge blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/01/mosaic/#18

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

Jamie Zawinski

" Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html"
Commonly attributed to jwz, but "I didn't make that up" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.ipaq.general/12226

Reading

“Your needs are big because the Internet is big.”

Jamie Zawinski

http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
JWZ
Easter eggs.

“[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.”

Jamie Zawinski

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F4D777.7BF84EA3%40netscape.com
Google
Groups.

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

Jamie Zawinski

Quoted in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook, chapter 7: " The X-Windows Disaster http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html"