Joe Armstrong (programmer) Quotes (1950-2019)

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About Joe Armstrong (programmer)

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

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“Shared memory is evil.”
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“A technology that nobody use, just dies.”
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“We can't handle failures on one computer.”
“Two phases commit breaks laws of physics.”
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“Files and systems they mutate all the time.”
“You can't do anything unless you detect the fault.”
“If we combine git and bittorrent we got gittorrent.”
“If you managed to scale horizontally, you can scale.”
“A lot of systems actually break the laws of physics.”
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“Things can be small. They don't have to be gigabytes.”
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“I think software are getting worse and worse in time.”
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“We need mechanism to make things smaller and smaller.”
“Pipes are wonderful. They are doing wonderful things.”
“There is another word for really big comments: a book!”
“Four languages to learn: C, Prolog, Erlang, Javascript.”
“When we write code, we forgot about the bigger picture.”
“I just want to model what’s going on in the real world”
“The middle man brings conceptual integrity to the system.”
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“You should not write systems that violate laws of physics.”
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“Messages are like files. We don't care how it was created.”
“Without Google and Stackoverflow programming would be impossible.”
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“I think things like PowerPoint have sort of destroyed creativity.”
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“Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.”
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“How many machines boot in 60 milliseconds? When did it come wrong?”
“If you don't have a book, you don't know how a bloody program work!”

About Joe Armstrong (programmer)

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