Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.

If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.

The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.

Forgiveness is a highly yielding tool for success. The ROI in it never drops.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

How did her life live itself without her.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.