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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.
Jamie Zawinski
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Jamie Zawinski
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 3
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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.
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Your use case should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
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[Perl] 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.
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To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
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