Joel on Software

If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innov…

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.

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

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you …

Architects know that some kinds of design problems are more personal than others. One of the cleanest, most abstract design problems is designing bridges. Ther…