Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski
James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski, commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser. He maintains the XScreenSaver project which provides screenblanking for Mac OS X and for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems using the X Window System...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 November 1968
CountryUnited States of America
joy toys littles
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
warning purpose life-is
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
want needs application
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.
school kids drug
Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.
secret made lots-of-money
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
dust work-out magic
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.
mom people focus
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.
bars cards rewards
I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.
past way might
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
real thinking people
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 the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.
thinking alternatives today
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.
giving firsts toys
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.
real stills real-questions
Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
jewels goal perfection
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.