27 Quotes by Douglas Crockford

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people.

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

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

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

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

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

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.