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JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. The very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. The bad ideas include a programming model based on global variables.

— Douglas Crockford

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The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

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