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.

Jamie Zawinski

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Working
  • Year
  • Active

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• 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.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • May
  • Military

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Great
  • School
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Women
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • She
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Money
  • Business
  • Small

• My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.

  

  Tad Williams

• God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • God

• Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Great

• I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Live
  • Done

• It's very funny that I'm being appreciated for my dance moves because when I was young, I was made fun of, as nobody thought I was able to dance.

  

  Nora Fatehi
  • Dance
  • Young
  • Appreciated

• I have the opportunity to do that right now, to try to work as hard as I can to really leave my footprint in this game that has given me so much.

  

  Jason Day
  • Work
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trifles
  • Alas

• 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