Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full- blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.