Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.