It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.

Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.