Jamie Zawinski Quotes

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

As the saying goes, when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!

The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.