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• Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. http://groups.google.nl/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com&output=gplainhttp://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
• You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out. http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
• Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
• I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. (http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ commands.c:501)
• Linux is only free if your time has no value. http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html - in an interview in June 1998; he later claimed that "Bits and pieces of this article have been quoted out of context in lots of places"
• Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2.) Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation. http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html in a comment on his site in 2000
• Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
• My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18
• If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself. http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
• I've noticed that when I get quoted in .sig files, it's never any of the actual *clever* things I say all the time. Usually it's something dumb. http://inkee.org/quote/dnaquotes.txt
• Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school. http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html
• Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever". http://inkee.org/quote/dnaquotes.txt

• C (it's not just a language, it's a grade) http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76?dmode=source
• Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/signatures.txt