14 Douglas Crockford Quotes

Douglas Crockford quotes

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

2. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

4. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

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

7. I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.