To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.