58 Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.

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

Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

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.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

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.

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

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?