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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.

— Jamie Zawinski

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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.

If you're using Windows, go fuck yourself.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

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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