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Joel Spolsky Quotes

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Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It’s fashionable to make ‘bet the company’ decisions, but don’t do it  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It’s one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, keanu Reeves, are so successful  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Nothing works better than just improving your product  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Listen to your customers, not your competitors  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Good software, like wine, takes time  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Design adds value faster than it adds cost  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) It’s harder to read code than to write it  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don’t pay any attention to the competition. They’re not relevant to you  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they’re succeeding. It’s the software equivalent of playing dead  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) If something seems possible, that’s probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can’t possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship though it can be, it’s design  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you’re not doing it, you’re not making progress at the fastest possible rate  (Joel Spolsky Quotes) An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it  (Joel Spolsky Quotes)