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.

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.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

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

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.