Joel Spolsky, co-founder, and CEO of the renowned Q&A site Stack Overflow, is a software engineer and writer. Famous as a former Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team, Spolsky is also the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. There are many quotes by Joel Spolsky that give us a lot of motivation. Let us take a look at some of Joel Spolsky quotes.
- “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”
- “Good software, like wine, takes time.”
- “Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.”
- “If your goal is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.”
- “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.”
- “Listen to your customers, not your competitors.”
- “Usability, fundamentally, is a matter of bringing a bit of human rights into the world of computer-human interaction. It’s a way to let our ideals shine through in our software, no matter how mundane the software is.”
- “A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”
- “Design adds value faster than it adds costs.”
- “Whenever somebody gives you a spec for some new technology, if you can’t understand it, don’t worry too much. Nobody else is going to understand it, either, and it’s probably not going to be important.”
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