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Jamie Zawinski

"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?"

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"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?"

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"I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways."

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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

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"I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious."

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."

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"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it."

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"I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old."

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"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
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"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense."
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"I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card."
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"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."
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"Linux is only free if your time has no value."
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"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!"
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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."
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