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

- Jamie Zawinski

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 wr…

- Jamie Zawinski

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 thi…

- Jamie Zawinski

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

- Jamie Zawinski

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 se…

- Jamie Zawinski

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

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work fo…

- Jamie Zawinski

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

- Jamie Zawinski

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

- Jamie Zawinski