Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.
You can achieve a shallow local maximum with AB testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.
Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.
If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.
If you got to have a dream, you may as well dream big.
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
Every five years, I decide to learn something new.