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

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

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

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.

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