27 Quotes by Douglas Crockford

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.

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

JavaScript is the world’s most misunderstood programming language.

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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

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.

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

JS will be a real functional language.

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.