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Joel Spolsky

(1965) Computer Scientist Israel

43 quotes in 268 categories

Joel Spolsky is a computer scientist from Israel, best known for More Joel on software.

Quick Facts About Joel Spolsky

Born: January 1, 1965
Nationality: Israel
Profession: Computer Scientist
Notable works: More Joel on software

About Joel Spolsky

Avram Joel Spolsky is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Joel Spolsky · Page 2

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Business

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I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using…

Causes

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That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Competitors

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Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if…

Adviser

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Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Features

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We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

Editors

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“When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read.…

American express

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Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines…

Age

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If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries…

Flaws

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Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Business

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A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Behave

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Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Bits

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It's harder to read code than to write it.

Code

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All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Abstraction

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“Usability, fundamentally, is a matter of bringing a bit of human rights into the world of computer-human interaction. It's a way to…

Human rights

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The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same…

Big mac

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“In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.”

Bug

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Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Common

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Programming (17) Ifs (10)