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
school kids drug
Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.
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.
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.
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.
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.
use doe corny
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
real stills real-questions
Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
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.
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.
It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push 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.
warning purpose life-is
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.