There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.

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

Good software, like wine, takes time.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

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

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.

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