If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn’t a platform.

I looked up ‘standard’ in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That’s the way the world works.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what’s on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don’t win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

I don't want to say these things. That's why I'm saying them. You may not want to hear them. That's why you should hear them.

Note that no one asked Mike if his code was open source or if his underwear is clean.

OK, he's a Yankees fan. Now I know why I don't like him.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.