Douglas Crockford Quotes

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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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You feel like you are floating away when you do Transcendental Meditation and it just enriches your spirit and nourishes the body. I feel so grateful to the Maharishi for teaching such wonderful things.

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

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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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We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

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Don't worry about anything. Just do what you can and be the best you can be.

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Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

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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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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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