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 something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

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.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

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