A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.