Do you ever read Slashdot? Chances are good you do, if your job is even remotely tech-ish. I generally read Slashdot via RSS instead of going to the site, which means that if I’m interested in a story I have to click through to the site. That, in turn, means I may be exposed to the “discussions” that take place on the site. Very little of worth happens in the discussions of Slashdot stories, with the exception of the odd “Ask Slashdot“.

I had kind of resigned myself to this being the level of discourse between techies; big-name bloggers excluded. This all changed when I clicked through to the current discussions at the Joel on Software forum. People there are pretty intelligent, and seem to honestly want to help posters, not just show off their leetness. I wanted to share this quote with you. Shakespeare it ain’t, but it sums up pretty well my career in the web:

If you aren’t working on something amazing, chances are you are working on something stupid. There is not that much middle ground in software.

Made by an anonymous poster, no less.

If you’ve got time to kill, and are a bit of a computer wonk, I’d really suggest you check out the Joel on Software forums.