Jamie Zawinski

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, Ill use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."

"Dont do drugs, kids. Stay in school."

"Your "use case" should be, theres a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?"

"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."

"You cant take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out."

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

"Id just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string."

"Linux is only free if your time has no value."

"C (its not just a language, its a grade)"

"I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away."

"Ive noticed that when I get quoted in .sig files, its never any of the actual clever things I say all the time. Usually its something dumb."

"Browser compatibility problems are natures way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin clever"."