All of Jeff's excellent quotes are from people who sell products. At Full Stop, we work with clients who in turn are responsible for generating their own profits, which means we must work all the harder to not only remember ourselves that execution is all that matters but to convince each and every client to adopt that mantra.

Jeff slams microformats, then admits he's using them anyway. I sympathize.

«That's why even the hardest of hard-core programmers should be paying attention to people like Seth Godin. Steve was referring to marketing in the broader, more timeless sense of getting other people interested in your ideas.»

"The transition from magnetic storage to solid state storage is nothing less than a breakthrough. It's already transformative; I can only imagine how fast, cheap, and large these drives are going to be in a few years. So, if you've ever wondered what performance would be like if everything was in RAM all the time -- well, we just got one giant step closer to that." # My next laptop will have an SSD. Bank on it.

"Regardless of what your feelings may be on StackOverflow in general, most visitors seem to agree that the user experience is smooth, from start to finish. They feel that they're interacting with a polished product. Even if I didn't know better, I would guess that very little of what actually makes StackOverflow a continuing success has to do with the database schema--and having had a chance to read through StackOverflow's source code, I know how little really does."

"What's aggravating to me is that the current situation is completely accidental. If Twitter had provided a sane way to link a single word, none of these weaselly URL shortening clones would have reared their ugly heads at all. Consider how simple it is to decouple the hyperlink from the display text in, say, phpBB, or Markdown, or even good old HTML markup itself."

"Is it true? Did someone just log in as me? I checked the OpenID logs, and sure enough, there was a valid login from an IP address I didn't recognize. He wasn't bluffing. He really did log in as me."

Community requires constant supervision, engagement, and care.

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