Inspirational quotes

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.”

“Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.”

“Form ever follows function.”

“Less is more.”

“Good design comes from a deep understanding of the technologies behind the scenes.”

“Learning from conventions will make your site better.”

“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.”

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

“Obey standards unless you've a darn good reason.”

“Cool URIs don't change.”

“Did we imagine that people would do bad things on the web? Absolutely.”

“If you think older people don’t know how to use the Internet, we invented it.”

“Security is never “done” — it is a process, not a final rest-state.”

“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

“PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”

“If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.”

“The web has been unbelievably successful, but centralization has made parts of it stagnant.”

“Make errors impossible. Making it impossible for the user to make errors is the best way to eliminate error messages.”

“I don't mind looking like a human being instead of a tie+shirt robot.”

“I avoid the cesspools of the Internet – Twitter, Slashdot, whatever troll-infested things that try to get a rise out of you.”

“I do hope and expect to be able to find a job much more easily due to Linux.”