Jamie Zawinski

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

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

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(6 votes)   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.

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

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

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(5 votes)   I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

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(5 votes)   Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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(5 votes)   My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

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(5 votes)   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!

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(4 votes)   I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

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(3 votes)   Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(5 votes)   If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

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