"text is the most articulate form of expression we have; it's so potent that even your graphical representation actually resorts to it. if you're going to introduce something else as well, that reduces simplicity, so there should be a very clear reason for it, and what you introduce should be in some sense manifestly the right thing."

"auch in bezug auf google+ und die theorie, die adams dazu liefert, stellt sich aber die frage, ob social networks oder soziale graphen etwas sind, das in der wirklichkeit existiert, bevor werkzeuge zur vernetzung zur verfügung stehen. facebook oder google+ bilden ja nicht nur beziehungen ab, sondern sie erzeugen oder verändern beziehungen, und darin liegt ihre soziale sprengkraft."

"I had hacked language implementations for fun since I was an undergrad" @BrendanEich on the making of JavaScript:

'the whole "ssd's need trim" support was a bedtime story for gullible morons.'

'hence all the discussion about your "stack", middleware, load-balancing, front-end servers, merbs, mongrels, passengers, and all the bewildering variety of gems required for the care and feeding of a production app. rails developers write about armoring their app with all this extra stuff in a way reminiscent of mmorpg players equipping a character for battle."

"I can't stand seeing the constantly incrementing unread count. social streams aren't meant to be an inbox where you must read everything. dip in when you have time and catch what you can. the rest of the important stuff you miss will somehow reach you if the signal is high enough."

'doing something "new" is way overrated, while doing something really well and making it available widely in the market seems to be continually underrated.'

comment: "I'm thinking that over the next 5 years, the simple act of giving every geek a powerful, programmable computer with a camera attached (that fits in their pocket) is going to do more for computer vision than all of the years of research that came before."

"in fact, this is a very happy day for us - our team is top contender for winning the grand prize, as we have a better test score than the ensemble."

"I'm ranting against the idiots who continue to talk about how software must be more highly threaded, and how multi-core is the inevitable future. / those people are morons. it's not the inevitable future at all. software programmers should not think that they have to write multi-threaded programs. it's too hard, and the payoff is too little. and it absolutely isn't where the industry is even going." -- looking forward to _linus: the collected rants_.