We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.