Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

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

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.