If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

It's harder to read code than to write it.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.