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 SpolskyIf your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.
Joel SpolskyIf 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 innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.
Joel SpolskyThere'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. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.
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