Business Quote by 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 programmer working on the next Duke Nukem and we'll ship when we're good and ready. But for almost any kind of real business, you just have to know how long things are going to take, because…” quote by Joel Spolsky — Download Open image

“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 programmer working on the next Duke Nukem and we'll ship when we're good and ready. But for almost any kind of real business, you just have to know how long things are going to take, because developing a product costs money.”

Joel Spolsky

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More 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

Image

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

Joel Spolsky

Image

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

Image

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

Image

“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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

“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 you test thousands of people from all walks of life under all kinds of conditions, something that not even Microsoft can afford to do, you are not actually getting statistically meaningful results. Remember, the real strength…

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 used in the wild. In the consumer software business, you can't rely on your customers to tell you about crashes—many of them may not be technical enough, and most of them won't bother to take time…

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 this kind of motivation is brain-dead. When I'm behind schedule, I feel doomed and depressed and unmotivated. When I'm working ahead of schedule, I'm cheerful and productive. The schedule is not the place to play psychological…

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

Image

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…

Joel Spolsky

Image

Explore all 43 Joel Spolsky quotes

More Business quotes

Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't…

Doug McMillon

Image

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

Ksenia Sobchak

Image

“Start a business, not a startup”

Anonymous

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's…

Snoop Dogg

Image

Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.

Sunil Nagaraj

Image

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I…

Ryan Kavanaugh

Image

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

G-Dragon

Image

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just…

Nora Ephron