I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. - Donald Knuth

Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the T_EX project is that software is hard. It’s harder than anything else I’ve ever had to do.

A good technical writer, trying not to be obvious about it, but says everything twice: formally and informally. Or maybe three times.