So whats wrong with the shell? and whats wrong with Erlang? Its not LI — Joe Armstrong (programmer)

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

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

"API in programming languages is totally stupid because they do not capture order."

"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."

"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."