Jamie Zawinski Quotes

Jamie Zawinski — American Scientist born on November 03, 1968,

James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski, commonly known as jwz, is an American hacker responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser. He maintains the XScreenSaver project which provides screenblanking for Mac OS X and for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems using the X Window System... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.