We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big comp — Joe Armstrong (programmer)

"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."

"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 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."