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Joel Spolsky has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
• So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the…
• A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
• Good software, like wine, takes time.
• Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if…
• Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.
• We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.
• Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.
• There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think…
• Design adds value faster than it adds cost.
• Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.
• If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

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