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
beauty running writing
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!
needs internet bigs
Your needs are big because the Internet is big.
secret made lots-of-money
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
mail program programming
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
focus doe looks
I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!
people world want
If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
design looks thumbs
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
leaving empires foreign-policy
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
inspirational successful two
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.
real class design
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.
linux programming software-development
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
coexist discovered
I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.