Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, pl…

- Joel Spolsky

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

- Joel Spolsky

Good software, like wine, takes time.

- Joel Spolsky

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

- Joel Spolsky

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a…

- Joel Spolsky

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

- 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 time, they are ag…

- Joel Spolsky

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [..…

- Joel Spolsky

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are …

- Joel Spolsky