Joe Armstrong Quotes

Joseph Leslie Armstrong was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. December 1950 – 20. April 2019
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Famous Joe Armstrong Quotes

“The middle man brings conceptual integrity to the system.”

Joe Armstrong

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“When we write code, we forgot about the bigger picture.”

Joe Armstrong

A Few Improvement to Erlang

Joe Armstrong Quotes about thinking

“I think things like PowerPoint have sort of destroyed creativity.”

Joe Armstrong

26 Years with Erlang

“One way I think Erlang was a kind of software emulating Tandem machine.”

Joe Armstrong

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

Joe Armstrong Quotes

“Things can be small. They don't have to be gigabytes.”

Joe Armstrong

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

“Messages are like files. We don't care how it was created.”

Joe Armstrong

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“Everything is interesting, everything does connect, but anything don't work.”

Joe Armstrong

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“"Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.”

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“Pipes are wonderful. They are doing wonderful things.”

Joe Armstrong

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“A technology that nobody use, just dies.”

Joe Armstrong

Over a Century of programming

“Shared memory is evil.”

Joe Armstrong

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

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

Joe Armstrong

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

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

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“One of the things we’ve forgotten, is the importance of protocols and not describing them accurately.”

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“Many programs don’t have well-defined interface. They should have.”

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.”

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“I just want to model what’s going on in the real world”

Joe Armstrong

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“You can both kept fault tolerance and scalability. You can have both or none of them”

Joe Armstrong

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

“If you managed to scale horizontally, you can scale.”

Joe Armstrong

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

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