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Jamie W. Zawinski , conocido como jwz, es un programador informático que además de ser el responsable de la versión 1.1. del navegador Netscape Navigator, ha realizado significativas contribuciones a los proyectos de software libre Mozilla y XEmacs.[1]​

En su carrera como programador, primero fue empleado por Scott Fahlman en un grupo de investigación sobre programación en LISP en la Universidad Carnegie Mellon. Más tarde se incorporó en la Universidad de Berkeley junto a Robert Wilensky y Peter Norvig. En los 1990 se incorporó a Lucid Incorporated empleado por Richard P. Grabiel dónde empezó a trabajar en el desarrollo de GNU Emacs. El proyecto entró en problemas dentro de la compañía por conflicto de intereses, pero los desarrolladores consiguieron sacar adelante la versión de GNU Emacs: XEmacs.[2]​

Posteriormente, todavía en los 1990, Zawinski diseñó junto a Terry Weissman los clientes de correo y de noticias de Netscape para las versiones 2.0 y 3.0 y puso en práctica el entonces nuevo estándar de criptografía para el correo seguro con la participación de Lisa Repka. Renunció a Netscape Communications Corporation el 1 de abril de 1999.[3]​

Actualmente, Zawinski es el propietario del Club DNA lounge en San Francisco. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. noviembre 1968
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“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.”

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alt.religion.emacs http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F0C496.370D7C45%40netscape.com (lost; recovered http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)
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“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”

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" resignation and postmortem http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html" (essay)

“There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.”

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http://www.jwz.org/doc/iwtbf.html
JWZ
IWTBF.

“My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.”

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DNA Lounge blog http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/04.html#18

“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.”

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XKeyCaps http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ homepage

“C (it's not just a language, it's a grade)”

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alt. religion. emacs http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.emacs/msg/991308e21103bb76

“Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying "stop trying to be so fuckin' clever."”

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http://inkee.org/quote/dnaquotes.txt
DNA quotes
Inkee.

“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.”

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In a comment http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html on his site in 2000

“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

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In an interview http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html in June 1998; he later claimed that "Bits and pieces of this article have been quoted out of context in lots of places"

“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”

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" don corleone http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/corleone.html" (essay)

“I dug in a bit but then the smell of gasoline and burning flesh drove me away.”

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DNA Lounge blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/01/mosaic/#18

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

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" Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html"
Commonly attributed to jwz, but "I didn't make that up" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.ipaq.general/12226

“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.”

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http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/signatures.txt
PP
RU
Texts
Signatures.

“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are … something else entirely.”

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http://www.jwz.org/doc/markup.html
JWZ
Markup.

“Your needs are big because the Internet is big.”

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http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
JWZ
Easter eggs.

“Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?”

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" Groupware Bad http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html" (essay)

“Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.”

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JWZ
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Groupware.

“[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.”

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http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F4D777.7BF84EA3%40netscape.com
Google
Groups.

“If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”

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JWZ
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Groupware.

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

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Quoted in the UNIX-HATERS Handbook, chapter 7: " The X-Windows Disaster http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html"

“But instead I'm stuck inside under fluorescent lights, pushing bits around inside a computer in ways that are only interesting to other nerds.”

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https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html
NSCP Dorm.

“The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.”

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" http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getting-it-right-the-first-time-is-that-nobody-realizes-how-hard-it-was/" (About Ubuntu Bug)

“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.”

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http://inkee.org/quote/dnaquotes.txt
DNA quotes
Inkee.

“Nothing comes for free.”

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http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
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Easter eggs.