So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important thing to get done right now and if you're not doing it, you're not making progress at the fastest possible rate.
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
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
Design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. - Joel Spolsky
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.
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
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…
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
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. [..…
Good software, like wine, takes time. - Joel Spolsky
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Nothing works better than just improving your product. - Joel Spolsky
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
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
People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are …
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
Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a…
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