Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.

I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth – a small machine.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.