Matt Lacey - Software Developer

"So for a platform owner or device maker, the content you can offer is no longer a strategic asset. Content doesn't sell devices, ...

... already here - it's just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson It's certainly not evenly distributed if it's just in ou...

We're using bodies evolved for hunting, gathering, and gratuitous violence for information age tasks like word processing and spreadshee...

“If you don’t have a triad of a designer, technologist, and business professional all coming to the table with equal skills and equal levels...

"Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you will suck it FOREVER ." - Brian Wilson

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather...

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education" — Albert Einstein

"The ideal engineer is a composite … he is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist, or a writer; but he may...

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - Edsger Dijkstra

“Design patterns do not lead to good design. Good design leads to design patterns." - Alan Shalloway

"One of the jobs of the appliaction is to make it easier for you [the user] to understand how to use the application" - Joel Spols...

"In the business world it's called 'customer service', but really it's just doing Jesus' ministry." -Mike Ric...

"There is nothing permanent except change." — Heraclitus

"You cannot write a description of software you want and then have someone develop it on a fixed schedule for a fixed price." - Ro...

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And th...

"Here's what someone expects if they come to see you on an in-person sales call: that you'll be prepared, focused, enthusiasti...

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,...

From SitePoint Design View #45 Robert had some wonderful insights and, perhaps most importantly, some excellent principles you can apply to...

"The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation." "… the designer of a new system must not...

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. —C.A.R. Hoare