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Be Clear First and Clever Second

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

If you’re looking for the more honest, truthful answer to pretty much any question on web design and usability, here it is:

It depends.

It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to "hand code" everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results.

Only proactively principled stances, often in the face of opposition including from within your own group, move us as a community and ultimately as a society towards a more just and healthy culture.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted

You May Be Whatever You Resolve To Be.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

Few companies seem to understand the concept of design so cannily and yet so incompletely as Google does.

Some of what I’m feeling may just be the need to have a technology villain. As an Apple user, that’s long been Microsoft, but it’s hard to feel threatened by a company that keeps tripping over itself.

Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern.
Data becomes information when assembled into a coherent whole, which can be related to other information.
Information becomes knowledge when integrated with other information in a form useful for making decisions and determining actions.
Knowledge becomes understanding when related to other knowledge in a manner useful in anticipating, judging and acting.
Understanding becomes wisdom when informed by purpose, ethics, principles, memory and projection.

Accessibility is something that needs to be fought for, not begged for.

Basically, what "Ajax" means is "JavaScript now works." And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones

Design Must Seduce, Shape, and More Importantly, Evoke an Emotional Response

If there are a set of disruptive changes coming it is incredibly important to go on offense

We have no kings or presidents. We believe in rough consensus and running code.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Everyone has something to contribute to the World Wide Web. Why? Because the Web is of us. Whatever we are as humans is now manifest in the Web: Our beauty, hatred, fragility and ferocity; our kindness, cruelty, confusion and clarity. Our wars. Our peace.

Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're really made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character.