"Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it."

-- Bruce Tognazzini

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“As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.”

Source : John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn
“You love me?" He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!”

Source : Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon”, p.450, Penguin UK
“I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.”
“How could you miss it? Just the sound of her voice makes my chest feel tight, my face gets hot and my mouth goes dry whenever she's near. It's getting so bad, all I have to do is see her and I'm already thinking, 'What does she want? What can I do for her?' She's got some power over me, there's no question, and what else could it be? ~Razo”
“It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.”
“Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.”
“Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.”

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