My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. Jamie Zawinski More Quotes by Jamie Zawinski More Quotes From Jamie Zawinski 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. Jamie Zawinski use people world I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater. Jamie Zawinski desks drink office On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense. Jamie Zawinski technology together hands And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. Jamie Zawinski machines time running Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! Jamie Zawinski writing running beauty See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. Jamie Zawinski toys littles joy I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot. Jamie Zawinski alternatives today thinking 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. Jamie Zawinski might way past 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. Jamie Zawinski focus mom people There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course. Jamie Zawinski courses secret made 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. Jamie Zawinski real people thinking Your needs are big because the Internet is big. Jamie Zawinski internet bigs needs 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. Jamie Zawinski goal jewels perfection Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school. Jamie Zawinski drug kids school 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. Jamie Zawinski rehabilitation want needs Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it? Jamie Zawinski real-questions stills real The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski irony maximum universe Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. Jamie Zawinski make out like trying
