Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject.

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world.

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.