"We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce than designs that assemble long lists of features."
- Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts

You're building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it."
- Marijn Haverbeke

"You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them -- two variables can refer to the same value."
- Marijn Haverbeke, Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming