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

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

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.

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

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

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

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.