Jamie Zawinski Quotes

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

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

Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer.

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that’s the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don’t have to run your OS, and you don’t have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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