And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.