58 Quotes by Jamie Zawinski

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.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

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

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.

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 for a successful company.

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.