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

Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.

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

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

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