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 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.

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

I don't want to make things that are cynical and aggressive just because, oh my God, there's enough of that going on in the world without me adding to it.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.