7 Quotes by Joe Armstrong

The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means “not too few, not too many, just about right.” Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint.

I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that’s my goal.

I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

Everyone should be able to go to a concert and enjoy music, and not feel like they’re going to be harassed. That’s how I see punk music.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side – I played sports, I went to school – and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.