Jamie Zawinski

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

“I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.”

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

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

“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 change...”

“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.”

“Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?”

“On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in...”