Douglas Crockford

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not…

— Douglas Crockford

“If you want to learn more about the bad parts and how to use them badly, consult any other JavaScript book.”

— Douglas Crockford

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

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good…

— Douglas Crockford

“suppress empty strings in the output array when the separator is a regular expression: var f = '|a|b|c|'.split(/\|/); // f is ['a',…

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

“Few classical programmers found prototypal inheritance to be acceptable, and classically inspired syntax obscures the language’s true prototypal nature. It is the…

— Douglas Crockford

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

“undefined and NaN are not constants. They are global variables, and you can change their values. That should not be possible, and…

— Douglas Crockford

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The…

— Douglas Crockford

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

— Douglas Crockford

It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that…

— Douglas Crockford

Using int made sense in the 50s. Not any more

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

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

— Douglas Crockford

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

— Douglas Crockford

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

— 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…

— Douglas Crockford

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last...

— Douglas Crockford

JS will be a real functional language.

— Douglas Crockford

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into…

— Douglas Crockford