American - Scientist | November 3, 1968 -
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
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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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My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
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I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
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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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Linux is only free if your time has no value.
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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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And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
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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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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
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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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I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
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