Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it..

Good software, like wine, takes time..

Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, pl….

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a….

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are ….

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

Design adds value faster than it adds cost..

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [..….

Nothing works better than just improving your product..

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 ag….

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done..

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected..

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right no….

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

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top..

Listen to your customers, not your competitors..

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important..

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote….

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. ….

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky..

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