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If it is not useful or necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to make it.

If it is useful and necessary, free yourself from imagining that you
need to enhance it by adding what is not an integral part of its
usefulness or necessity.

And finally: If it is both useful and necessary and you can
recognize and eliminate what is not essential, then go ahead and make
it as beautifully as you can.

Shaker quote.

See also A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design.

From the CodeGear’s CEO, Ben Smith:

I have been spending a bit of time with partners in the development world ranging from ex Softies to ex Borlanders to really get more perspective on our efforts in Delphi, around PHP, with Eclipse, and Ruby.
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[Update]
CodeGear’s Michael Swindell, in a response on Mike Does Tech’s blog:

… But Ruby is different. Ruby as a language hasn’t yet taken off into the stratosphere, but it has more mindshare and great brains thinking about it today than any other up-n-coming language. It has the potential to be a very significant and with Rails it has the potential to go beyond public facing web apps and really be an alternative to Java or .NET in the Enterprise app world. With the “deregulation” and fragmentation of the Java world, and the constant demand for “an easier Java than Java”, RoR has a unique opportunity today. We do see Ruby and RoR in CodeGear’s future.