API in programming languages is totally stupid because they do not cap — Joe Armstrong (programmer)

"I do not think we can build systems that are large with large components."

"Computer systems fail. We have to deal with it, we cant ignore it."

"I just want to model what’s going on in the real world"

"I wanted to build fault tolerant systems and pretty soon I realized that you can’t make a fault tolerant system on a computer, because I think in the entire computer might crash, so I needed lots of independent computers."

"I dont think a program should be bigger than possibly 128 kilobytes, possibly 64 kilobytes. It should be possible to understand that program in its entirety."

"Bad ideas in computer science and anywhere are sticky. If the first idea was a bad idea, then because it works people will sort of repeat it."