How small? - τorƍue

10 CLS - Mattb4rd

Excellent advise K.I.S.S. :) - Susan Beebe

How Big? - John D Reasor

+ John - τorƍue

Big enough to change the world, and small enough to get done right now. - Paul Buchheit

Amen - release early, release often, especially as an entrepreneur - Jesse Stay

Please provide a list of projects that we can get done right now that'll change the world. kthxbye - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, I think the saying is, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, I figured you'd say something like that ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Paul, when you said "code small", was that just the first step? :) - τorƍue

It's also the second step. - Paul Buchheit

The next trick is taking all those steps in one direction, otherwise you can end up dancing around in one place like a madman, not actually getting anywhere. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

20 ? "Shall we play a game?" - Mattb4rd

Yes, good point Ken, though sometimes we must navigate around obstacles such as mountains and oceans. - Paul Buchheit

And sometimes you have to head downhill to get to the top of that peak off in the distance. - Ken Sheppardson

Don't forget time itself - Jesse Stay

booo yaaa! - Bill Heslin

On average, how much of a code project's big success could be significantly attributed to luck? Luck alone never gets it there, but still. I code because of the small rewards, so whatever the answer is, I'm fine with it. :) - Micah Wittman

This is a more likely result, but keep swinging: http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... - Mattb4rd

Think BIG. Code SMALL. Maintain ZERO! (Ideal conditions!) - Nishant

http://bit.ly/ThinkBi... ;-) - michael silverton

Think small. Code big. http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc... - Kelly Norton

lol @Kelly - Nick Lothian

I'm currently coding for a machine that has 12 bytes of variable memory and 256 bytes of program memory. In a language with 32 commands. Am I coding small enough? - Kevin Fox

Now wonders what Kevin is working on for Facebook ;-) - Jesse Stay

Sounds like a remote control. - Cristo

I've been coding a few of these for Halloween: http://efx-tek.com/topics... - Kevin Fox

Cool. What's the application? - Cristo

Light and sound effects with a few triggers. - Kevin Fox

I must admit to being baffled by systems shipping with many gigabytes of code now that have similar functionality to systems with a few megabytes of code 15 years ago. - Cristo

Kevin, nice! Now I want one. I remember writing a BASIC program in High School that controlled some AND gates via parallel cable on a circuit board we created in my electronics class. The purpose was to control 4 step motors. Awesome that you can just pre-program a chip now on a device like this that will do similar things. Need to look into that. - Jesse Stay

Check out Revision3's podcasts. There are some with Patrick Norton doing this on System (I think that's the right one) - Mattb4rd

@Paul: Which font size do you recommend for the code editor? 14pt? or is 10pt even better? ;) - Jemm

Like jquery - ★ Soner Gönül

Soner - that's a great example, actually. jQuery has been transformative, IMO, even in the face of alternative JS frameworks which aren't bad, just not greatness in a small package. - Micah Wittman

Paul isn't it time for another sip of the premature optimization is the root of all evil kool-aide? You just aren't getting it :-) - Todd Hoff