Jamie Zawinski

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

"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."

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

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

"You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out."

"These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for …"

"Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."

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