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1. "Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes." ~ Jamie Zawinski
2. "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." ~ Jamie Zawinski
3. "Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!" ~ Jamie Zawinski
4. "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." ~ Jamie Zawinski
5. "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?" ~ Jamie Zawinski
6. "If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works." ~ Jamie Zawinski
7. "See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy." ~ Jamie Zawinski
8. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." ~ Jamie Zawinski
9. "Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?" ~ Jamie Zawinski
10. "I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card." ~ Jamie Zawinski
11. "I use a really simple calendar program on my computer." ~ Jamie Zawinski
12. "Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely." ~ Jamie Zawinski
13. "My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." ~ Jamie Zawinski
14. "And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux." ~ Jamie Zawinski
15. "I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater." ~ Jamie Zawinski
16. "Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer." ~ Jamie Zawinski

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