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.

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

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

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 problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

Self-awareness is the key to self-fulfillment.

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?

All it takes is one good person to restore hope.

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.