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Jamie Zawinski Quotes: If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
         

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.


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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.



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Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.



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Linux is only free if your time has no value.



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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?



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.

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.



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.

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.



Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.



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To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.



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.

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.



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.

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.





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