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“Care about your craft, and leave every file a little better than you found it.”

“Good structure — in buildings or software — is a sequence of small, humane decisions.”

“Work on the important problems — and notice the ones you've been quietly avoiding.”

“When a door confuses you, it isn't your fault. Affordances are a kindness you design in.”

“Live the questions now. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.”

“The quiet satisfaction of making something that is true whether or not anyone claps.”

“Small, safe steps — the habit of keeping the code soft enough to change.”

“What is essential is invisible to the eye — a line I keep taped above the desk.”

“System 2 is the slow, careful one — and the one you have to remember to invite in.”

“The grid is not a cage — it's the silence that lets the type speak.”

“Engineering as devotion — people pouring themselves into a thing that ships and is forgotten.”

“Take it bird by bird. Permission to write — and ship — a shabby first draft.”

“Adding people to a late project makes it later. Some things just take their nine months.”

“Nothing is original. Collect, remix, and let your taste be the thing that is yours.”

“Do your work, then step back — the only path, it says, to any kind of serenity.”

“Usability is just removing question marks — one screen, one decision at a time.”

“Quality is the knife-edge of now, where the subject finally meets the object.”

“Make the work visible. The bottleneck is almost never where you think it is.”

“Memory is a funny thing — it keeps what you never asked it to, and loses the rest.”

“The ones crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”