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

Jamie Zawinski Technology See all quotes by Jamie Zawinski →

React to this quote

More by Jamie Zawinski

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

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

“There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.”

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

“combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.”

“I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.”

Resonant Thoughts

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Science1786–1845

#friendship

"Although people cannot define existence and do use the term with some looseness, yet it is possible to give an extensive definition by pointing to the sorts of things that everyone believes to exist. …"

— C. D. Broad

Philosophy1887–1971

#life

"Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions…"

— Norman Angell

Economics1872–1967

#love

"Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with ell…"

— Huey Long

Politics1893–1935

#friendship