Douglas Crockford
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.Collection: Data
Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.Collection: Computer
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.Collection: People
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.Collection: Beautiful
People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.Collection: Class
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Language
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.Collection: Engineering
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.Collection: Misunderstood
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.Collection: Confusion
Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.Collection: People
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Productive Life
Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.Collection: Mean
People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.Collection: People
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.Collection: Mistake
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.Collection: Organization
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.Collection: Wheels
A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.Collection: May
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.Collection: Strong
Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any moreCollection: Made
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.Collection: Design
Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.Collection: Obsolete
JS will be a real functional language.Collection: Real
Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.Collection: Minorities
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.Collection: Long
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal peopleCollection: Emotional