Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

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

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

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

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Money is still the root of all evilYet we tell our kids don't get that degreeThe jobs don't pay enough.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

burning with curiosity

Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.