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

A JSON decoder MAY accept and ignore comments.

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

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

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.

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.

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