Code Quote by Joel Spolsky

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

— Joel Spolsky

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

— Joel Spolsky

Good software, like wine, takes time.

— Joel Spolsky

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

— Joel Spolsky

“If you can’t understand the spec for a new technology, don’t worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won’t be that…

— Joel Spolsky

So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important…

— Joel Spolsky

Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a…

— Joel Spolsky

If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch…

— Joel Spolsky

“In any case, even if a usability test resolves a dispute, it doesn't do it in any kind of a statistically valid way. Unless…

— Joel Spolsky

“The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs to be…

— Joel Spolsky

“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think…

— Joel Spolsky

Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same…

— Joel Spolsky