Top 24 Douglas Crockford Quotes

#1. Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

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#2. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

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#3. Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

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#4. JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

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#5. Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

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#6. Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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#7. Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

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#8. Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

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#9. People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.

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#10. The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

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#11. Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

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#12. People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last ...

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#13. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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#14. JS will be a real functional language.

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#15. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

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#16. The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

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#17. Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

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#18. It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

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#19. It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

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#20. Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

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#21. Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

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#22. I give permission
for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

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#23. A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

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#24. Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

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