Top 29 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.
Douglas Crockford
#2. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
Douglas Crockford
#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.
Douglas Crockford
#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.
Douglas Crockford
#5. Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.
Douglas Crockford
#7. Rather than insist that a situation must prove itself flawless before we commit ourselves, we should assume that a good opportunity is very possibly one we should choose.
M. Blaine Smith
#8. Griffin immediately beaned him in the back of the head with a Hackey Sack. Dude, grow some balls. You're an embarrassment to penises everywhere.
S.C. Stephens
#9. 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.
Douglas Crockford
#10. Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe,
Yuval Noah Harari
#11. Just because something is a standard doesn't mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.
Douglas Crockford
#12. People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.
Douglas Crockford
#13. The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
Douglas Crockford
#14. I can't talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it's very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
Jorge Luis Borges
#15. Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
Douglas Crockford
#16. I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?
Sarah Dessen
#17. People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last ...
Douglas Crockford
#18. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.
Douglas Crockford
#20. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.
Douglas Crockford
#21. The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crockford
#22. Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
Douglas Crockford
#23. 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.
Douglas Crockford
#24. It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
Douglas Crockford
#25. Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
#26. 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.
Douglas Crockford
#27. I give permission
for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.
Douglas Crockford
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