“You can stand to be flat for awhile when you are way ahead, but when you’re #2 and flat you’re not in a good place.

“Heroics are for when you have no other choice. When you can afford to take on tremendous risk because there’s no alternative. That’s probably not today.

“..if you remember Dan Bricklin’s rule, you’ll avoid hours of interesting discussions about how important it is to do something that is impossible to do.

“Instead of making you feel bad for “only” doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%.

“How many pages does a Web 2.0 company have to flip a month to get on track one day hold an initial public offering? A billion or more, says Opus Capital partner Ken Elefant, which is why his firm doesn’t invest in them.

“..don’t listen to pundits, loud bloggers, or any individual just because they have a large following or can make a lot of noise…especially if they haven’t used the site on a regular basis! Make sure that the sample of people you’re listening to is part of the actual user population.

“From the Drawing toolbar in the lower-left corner of the screen, choose the Line tool. Draw a line over the text you want to format as strikethrough.

“Web fonts in 2007 still don’t have kerning pairs. We don’t know why.

“Any data you want can be scraped off these pages with fairly minimal difficulty.

“..in 2002, Simonyi left Microsoft and launched an independent company. He walked out with a patent-cross-­licensing agreement that let him use the concepts and ideas of his intentional-programming research but did not permit him to take any of his old code with him. He would have to start writing a new code base from scratch.