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. I become a happier man each time I suffer

Lance Armstrong

#5. If I can survive, I can be somebody tomorrow.

Michelle Malone

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

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

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#9. It was an old kender proverb - Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.

Margaret Weis

#10. 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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#11. It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.

James Russell Lowell

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

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

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#15. Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Carlos Santana

#16. 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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#17. It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

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#19. One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

Frederick Lenz

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

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#21. JS will be a real functional language.

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#22. The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.

Arianna Huffington

#23. I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

Aminatta Forna

#24. My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.

Curtis Stone

#25. 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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#26. Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Erica Jong

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

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

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#29. Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#30. 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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#31. I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

Mandy Moore

#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. I give permission
for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

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#36. I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

Susan Isaacs

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

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

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