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Joe Armstrong Quotes

1950–2019 United States

Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems.

United States
Computer scientists

Also known as: Joe Armstrong

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

The methodology for what I was going to do: ask some questions, get some replies, organize result, choose the best things to do.

I thing the first company that's a pure Erlang worth a billion dollars.

If you don't have a book, you don't know how a bloody program work!

Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.

You should not write systems that violate laws of physics.

There is another word for really big comments: a book!

We need mechanism to make things smaller and smaller.

If you managed to scale horizontally, you can scale.

A lot of systems actually break the laws of physics.

You can't do anything unless you detect the fault.

We can't handle failures on one computer.

Two phases commit breaks laws of physics.

Do we really need to hijack our attention systems every 10 seconds with a banner?

Comments are really good, so I would advise you to write comments. Write really big and expensive comments.

The nice thing about the Erlang documentation is everything is done in XML. XML is absolutely brilliant for marking up text.

I think things like PowerPoint have sort of destroyed creativity.

Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.

Defensive programming in C, is only necessary because you have only have a single thread of computation. If you have a sequential language and it crashes, you lost everything.

People says notation does not matter, they don't like Erlang notation [...] but notation does matter.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joe Armstrong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.