Application Quote by Douglas Crockford

“Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.”

Douglas Crockford

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

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

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

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Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

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“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

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