#26
01/20/2026
#26
Bold claims, blanket statements, and sweeping generalizations.
If Trump declares that the U.S. is laying claim to all of the green cheese on the moon -- say, to lower the price of dairy groceries -- the news media should not respond with fact-finding articles with headlines like "How Much Cheese Is on the Moon?" They should respond with headlines like "How Many Marbles Are Left in Trump's Dementia-Addled Head?"
- John Gruber, Crazy People Do Crazy Things
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
- General George S. Patton, Speech to the Third Army
Brutal.
Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which things go in which bucket is critical to fully understanding how to make something useful.
- Jason Fried, The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
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