Avoiding Quote by 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 your own.

— 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

“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']…

— 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 worst of…

— 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 yet it…

— 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