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That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top. — 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

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

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior. — Margaret J. Wheatley

All of live is a celebration if you just find the right spot in the sun to take it all in — Laura Fraser

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything — Isaac Newton

As long as you have more cash flowing in than flowing out, your investment is a good investment. — Robert Kiyosaki

Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design. — Joel Spolsky

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. — Joel Spolsky

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

It's harder to read code than to write it. — Joel Spolsky

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. — Joel Spolsky

Listen to your customers, not your competitors. — Joel Spolsky

Good software, like wine, takes time. — Joel Spolsky

Germany must have her place in the sun. — Wilhelm II

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. — Joel Spolsky

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

PTSD: It's the big game. You're wearing a helmet and pads. You make the big play and turn to the crowd, but no one is there, — Peggy Randall-Martin

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for. — Joel Spolsky

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

The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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 important. — Joel Spolsky

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. — Aristophanes

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

Design adds value faster than it adds cost. — Joel Spolsky

The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way. — Joel Spolsky

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. — Joel Spolsky

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you. — Joel Spolsky

It pays to be content with your lot. — Aesop

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead. — Joel Spolsky