Quotes by Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Program

User Interface

Wells

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Abstraction

Degrees

An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it.

Execution

Ideas

Persons

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 aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

Levels

People

Way

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Numbers

Patterns

Three

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Add

Coders

Design

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

Simple

Smart

Team

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

Business

Improving

Products

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

Age

Cost

Retail

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Programming

Software

Wine

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Abstraction

Add

Age

Attention

Beer

Behave

Bigs

Business

Cash

Character

Code

Coders

Competition

Competitors

Cost

Coyotes

Decision

Degrees

Design

Done

Easy

Editors

Effort

Entrepreneur

Execution

Expected

Fall

Fighting

Flaws

Goal

Harder

Home

Ideas

Important

Improving

Innovation

Ipods

Laptops

Law

Levels

Listening

Long

Looks

Mean

Microsoft

Mind

Morning

Motivational

Needs

Normal

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it.

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 aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

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

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

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