Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski

[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.

Aspect

Different

Worst

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Machines

Running

Time

Any time someone says “that’s it, I’m leaving” I ask them whether they’d prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they’re usually worse in the protectorates.

Empires

Foreign Policy

Leaving

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

Needs

Rehabilitation

Want

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Cups

Dixie

Two

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it’s full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Goal

Jewels

Perfection

Don’t do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

Drug

Kids

School

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

Mail

Program

Programming

I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

Bars

Cards

Rewards

I eat and drink at my desk, but I’m a tidy eater.

Desks

Drink

Office

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Alternatives

Aspect

Bars

Beauty

Bigs

Calendars

Cards

Class

College

Corny

Courses

Cups

Design

Desks

Different

Dixie

Doe

Drink

Drug

Dust

Ease

Empires

Engineering

Firsts

Focus

Foreign Policy

Funny Inspirational

Giving

Goal

Hands

Inspirational

Internet

Irony

Jewels

Joy

Kids

Leaving

Life Is

Linux

Littles

Looks

Machines

Made

Magic

Mail

Maximum

Might

Mom

Nails

Needs

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Tool

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Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski

[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.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Any time someone says “that’s it, I’m leaving” I ask them whether they’d prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they’re usually worse in the protectorates.

Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless.

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

Don’t do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

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

I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I’m a tidy eater.

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