Jamie Zawinski: Quotes about people

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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

People , Problem , Thinking

“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.”

Jamie Zawinski

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

People , Motivation , Thinking , Help

“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.

People , Moms

“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.

People , World , Change