Jamie Zawinski Quotes

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

While I may not get any money from Linux, I get a huge personal satisfaction from having written something that people really enjoy using, and that people find to be the best alternative for their needs.

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want.

Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.

Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

The world will not change until we do