If your startup's potential market is huge, make very conservative assumptions when estimating its size. There is nothing investors like more than an… - Paul Graham

If you're criticizing a good writer and the sentence you use to describe what they said is more unequivocal than the one they wrote, you've probably misinterpreted them, because a good writer says things as unequivocally as possible.

think language designers would do better to consider their target user to be a genius who will need to do things they never anticipated, rather than a bumbler who needs to be protected from himself. The bumbler will shoot himself in the foot anyway.

It might not be a bad policy to ask every couple months "what is the most community noted account remaining?" and ban it.