Computer systems fail. We have to deal with it, we cant ignore it. — Joe Armstrong (programmer)

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Messages are like files. We dont care how it was created."