Software
Shipping is a feature
Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. Joel Spolsky, The Duct Tape Programmer
Usability
We were wrong about the first-time shoppers
We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. Jared M. Spool, The $300 Million Button (Wayback Machine)
Music
There is something fundamentally unresolved about our music
There is something fundamentally unresolved about our music. And that’s a good thing. If our music was all resolved and sat neatly into a genre, ours wouldn’t be a multidimensional story. Vernon Reid on Living Colour, in a Boston Herald interview (Wayback Machine)
Fear
And The Fears are a tightly-knit
And The Fears are a tightly-knit, mean-spirited posse who egg each other on and love nothing more than trashing your house while you sob in the guest bathroom. Fears are total dicks. Merlin Mann, 43 Folders
Internet
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. John Gilmore
Life
A human being should be able to change a diaper
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch
Photography
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Henri Cartier-Bresson (see also the 9 other Photography Quotes)
Free
The question these companies should be asking
The question these companies should be asking is, “How do we keep reporting and publishing good content?” Instead, though, they’re asking “How do we keep making enough money to support our existing management and advertising divisions?” John Gruber (Daring Fireball), Charging for Access to News Sites
In industry after industry, I think we’ve got an opportunity
In industry after industry, I think we’ve got an opportunity to shift our policies towards supporting nimble, durable markets that mimic real networks: diverse collections of nodes with a few particularly well-connected hubs. Snarkmarket: Free Book Idea: Too Big to Succeed
Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses
Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses for a moment of time, but they wouldn’t have worked in 1784, and they’re not going to work very soon in the future either. Seth Godin, on Malcolm Gladwell, on Chris Anderson
A whole class of recent switchers
There’s a whole class of recent switchers who define “Apple fanboy” as “anyone who’s been an enthusiastic Mac user since before I switched to the Mac”. John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Media
A confused view of the web
a confused view of the web, [is] that you never want to send people to another site, because (incorrectly) that means fewer page views on your own site Techdirt: Why Do Newspapers So Rarely Link Out?