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.

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

Naïve, and very very dangerous. If she only knew what treacherous waters she has just stepped into.

News seems to travel far more quickly on Twitter and Facebook than through search.

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself.

A food's value is based on how good it tastes.

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

I am different. Let this not upset you

Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.