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Jamie Zawinski, a well-known programmer whose projects include Firefox, xscreensaver, and a few others. He's a good quipster. He's also an annoying jackwagon, just like you are.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use $1!" Now they have two problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use applets!" Now they are banned.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use arrays!" Now they have problems[1]

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use caching!" Now they have one problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use double!" Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point!" Now they have 1.9999997 problems.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use idea!" Then they solve their problem.

If you have a problem and decide to use Java ... Now you have a Problem and a ProblemImpl

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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use jwz!" Now they're confronted with a problem about using jwz, and think "I know, I'll use jwz!". Now they're confronted with a problem about using jwz a

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use operator overloading!" Now they != 2 [problems]

Some people, when confronted with a performance problem, think "I know, I'll optimize!" Now they have two problems: slow code and a highly optimized block of code that's inconsequential when it comes to performance.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use OSGi!" Now they have eight million, seven hundred forty three thousand, three hundred and one problems. Until they add more by trying to fix some of th

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use prolog!" No.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I'll use reflection!" Now they have information about, and access to, their problem but still no solution in sight.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use scala!" Now they have 847,172.3716 problems and can only somewhat define one of them. Boy howdy, have they screwed themselves over.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know! I'll use SGML!" Now <?xml version="1.0?"><person><possessions><problem id="p01"><description lang="en">Whatever your first problem was</description></problem><p

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