Frasi di Jamie Zawinski

James Werner Zawinski noto come Jamie Zawinski o jwz è un informatico statunitense.

Ha collaborato alla creazione di Netscape Navigator e XEmacs, oltre a essere uno degli sviluppatori principali di XScreenSaver. Attivo nella comunità open source fin dagli anni 1980, è uno dei fondatori di Mozilla, avendone addirittura coniato il nome. È inoltre celebre per la legge di Zawinski che afferma:



Anche nota come "Legge dello Sviluppo del Software", la massima si riferisce all'inserimento della funzionalità di posta elettronica all'interno di Netscape. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Novembre 1968
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Jamie Zawinski: Frasi in inglese

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.”

alt.religion.emacs http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com (lost; recovered http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
Attributed

“There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.”

http://www.jwz.org/doc/iwtbf.html
JWZ
IWTBF.

“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”

DNA Lounge blog http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18

“C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)”

alt. religion. emacs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

In an interview http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html in June 1998; he later claimed that "Bits and pieces of this article have been quoted out of context in lots of places"

“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”

" don corleone http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html" (essay)

“I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away.”

DNA Lounge blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/01/mosaic/#18

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

" Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html"
Commonly attributed to jwz, but "I didn't make that up" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.ipaq.general/12226

“Your needs are big because the Internet is big.”

http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
JWZ
Easter eggs.

“Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.”

Quoted in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook, chapter 7: " The X-Windows Disaster http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html"

“Nothing comes for free.”

http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
JWZ
Easter eggs.

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