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.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something.
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Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through this central point, it's really interesting that we can identify the filter that our mind is using to select what it thinks is relevant and what it's going to forget.
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I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.
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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
