Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.