“When your third engineer starts tracking bugs on that huge whiteboard in the meeting room, that’s process. It doesn’t have to be good, it doesn’t even have to be universally agreed upon on, it just has to be stuck in a place where every can see it.

“Of course “requirements” doesn’t mean requirements, we should all know that by now. “Requirements” are more like wishes, or more correctly, some placeholder for what I need, or still more correctly, “some placeholder for what I think solves what I think is the phrasing for a problem or desire I think I have.” So a person or group of people write down a bunch of these wish / placeholder things. And of course you’re a fool if you believe them all.

“As humankind moves along, shedding light in the direction of the movement, Darkness repossesses the area behind us.

“Bizarrely, each time we have won in England there was no coach.

“We’ve come to learn that it’s hard to motivate technical people, including ourselves, through money, colorful toys, or gigantic monitors. We try, instead, to have a mock-up ready for everything we’re about to approach so the motivation for accomplishment is instilled by our need to see something that looks cool come alive.

“The hegemony of “free” will in the long run end up narrowing our choices rather than expanding them. I still hope that there will be a way to actually sell stuff on the internet rather than having to give everything away for free, crassly plastered with ads.

“Awareness of human fallibility is dangerous knowledge, if you remind yourself of the fallibility of those who disagree with you. If I am selective about which arguments I inspect for errors, or even how hard I inspect for errors, then every new rule of rationality I learn, every new logical flaw I know how to detect, makes me that much stupider.

“The Aesthetic-Usability Effect: users perceive more aesthetically pleasing designs to be easier to use than less aesthetically pleasing designs.

“Nu is written in Objective-C, and is designed to allow deep interaction with Objective-C programs. As a result, Nu has deep access to its own implementation. That gives its users an unusual ability to explore and understand Nu.