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.

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.

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.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

There is no first strike in Karate.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.