Jamie Zawinski: Use

Jamie Zawinski is American programmer. Explore interesting quotes on use.

Jamie Zawinski: 48 quotes 1 like

“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

“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

“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)

“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

“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"