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

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

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

26 Years with Erlang

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

The How and Why of Fitting Things Together

“We need to know why things fails. If we want to improve our system, we need to put that information into that system into logs or something.”

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

“We can't do a list of 20 things. You can't do 20 things in parallel. Do one of them. Do the next.”

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

“I can only implement one thing at a time. I'm a one thing at a time person. So, if you give me that huge list of things, I will implement the most important thing. Which is it?”

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

“If somebody puts a big list of things up, my question is always: what is the most important thing on that list.”

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

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

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

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

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about.”

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

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

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

“I was using Smalltalk and I never actually go through this boundary of sort of simulating the class structure in my head so that I can program itself. It was painful, I used to chose the changelog to find things, I regret you did it.”