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

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

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

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

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.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.