58 Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

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

"You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like."

"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."

"I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!"

"Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely."

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

"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."

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

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

"[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."