Amen, Brother

Great quote from Joel:

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

I'm with him on that one. Not that we don't use that as a bad excuse a little more than we should...

Here's the article that is from.