"I had a plan. Learn Emacs. Learn UNIX. And learn programming language. What happened? I didnt learn Emacs. I didnt learn UNIX. And I invented a new programming language."
Joseph Leslie Armstrong was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
"Lets unbreak the web. The web is broken. Lets go out and un-break it and lets bring computation back to these supercomputers that weve got in our pockets [...] Lets ensure that our personal data is owned by us and not by large corporations [...] Lets make computing easy again like it was in the past. Lets build apps that could communicate with each other."
"So whats wrong with the shell? and whats wrong with Erlang? Its not LISP!"
"I will never ever make any statement about performance that is not based on measurement and I will never ever advise anybody on how to write their code without saying write it and measure. I just will not speculate. I think people who do speculate about this should not speculate about it and they should write it, run it and measure it."
"I do not think we can build systems that are large with large components."
"We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big companies [Google, Facebook]."
"API in programming languages is totally stupid because they do not capture order."