Our goal is actually to have about 75% utilization if we had one hundr — Joe Armstrong (programmer)

"So whats wrong with the shell? and whats wrong with Erlang? Its not LISP!"

"The number of states of three variables in javascript could have is greater of the total number of the atoms of the planet."

"We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big companies [Google, Facebook]."

"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."

"The spec does not tell me what to do. What do I program? [...] I thought this is crazy, we are building products with specifications and things, and the specifications doesnt say whats supposed to happen. Then when you get to this point in the code where you dont know whats going to happen, everybody knows how programs it. I thought thats crazy because I didnt know and I thought everybody could interpret that differently and they could make an ad-hoc decision. So I thought to myself, the only sensible thing to do is crash. We just crash this call because we dont know what to do."

"The cornerstones of fault tolerant programming are to isolate errors to make sure if one thing crash it does not crash anything else. Thats what the processes in operating system do."