For starters, let’s get it out of the way and admit that the Kindle’s user interface is just horrible. — Lyle Johnson

In Tribes, Seth Godin makes a rather startling assertion, that a Tribe must “exclude outsiders.” This doesn’t seem like a way to grow a tribe, but he says that you should go for quality rather than size. I think this applies to weblogs as well.... — Bruce Eckel

It hasn’t been all roses, they have had experience of accidentally deleting walls and also removing avatar clothing. — Rachael Davies

Most managers can’t hear no if they literally cannot imagine how to work themselves out from under the pile of work. — Johanna Rothman

Pragmatic programmers should not be re-termed duct tape programmers. — Dhananje Nene, challenging Joel Spolsky

“Clone Yourself” .. a most thought provoking article! A big ‘thank you’. — Roy Daly in PragPub Forum

I often find that a nice design can come from just being really anal about getting rid of duplicated code. — Martin Fowler

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. — Douglas Adams

Communications person: Do you think we need to tell the field? Change manager: Well, it all depends on what level of confusion you want to communicate. — OverheardInTheOffice.com

A dialog box is another room. Have a good reason to go there. — Alan Cooper

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as “users.” — Edward Tufte

The Microsoft Paradox: Every generalization about Microsoft is simultaneously true and false. — Stephen Cawood

Enjoying PragPub magazine from the pragmatic programmers. Printed it onto dead trees. Is that bad? — Glenn Halstead via Twitter

We can all imagine an old-style editor getting a scoop and saying “this will sell a lot of papers!” Cross out that final S and you’re describing their business model. The reason they make less money now is that people don’t need as much paper. — Paul Graham

AUTHOR TOUR: A hazing ritual intended to make authors compliant to their publishers. — Thomas Christensen, Tom’s Glossary of Publishing Terms

One day, you’ll turn off the feature that emails you every time someone buys your software. That’s a huge milestone. — Joel Spolsky