Douglas Crockford famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#People #Needs #Javascript
Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Computer #Program #Humans
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Data #Crafts #Requirements
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.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Long #People #Design
JS will be a real functional language.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Real #Language
Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more
-- Douglas Crockford

#Made
Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
-- Douglas Crockford

#People #Mind
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Misunderstood #World #Javascript
A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.
-- Douglas Crockford

#May #Accepting #Comment
People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Class #People #Use
Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people
-- Douglas Crockford

#Emotional #People #Normal
I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Evil #Giving #Use
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.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Mistake #Writing #Years
Just because something is a standard doesnâ€™t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Mean #Choices #Example
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Wheels #Good Things
People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last...
-- Douglas Crockford

#People #Innovation #Lasts
In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Beautiful #Javascript #Good Intentions
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.
-- Douglas Crockford

#Ideas #Innovation #Progress

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