The joke is actually a jump from one context to another. [...] All creativity is an extended form of a joke.

Alan Kay

In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Perlis

On Building UI

03:23 <Jane__> general ui advice (everyone listen): on your first round take out as much ui as you can without thinking you’re looking at a cheese sandwich. test it. find the bits that confuse everyone, and then add ui for those things. don’t start with ui for everything. people are clever and use the web. they will figure things out, and the things we think they’ll get are always the wrong ones