People says notation does not matter, they don't like Erlang notation [...] but notation does matter. - Joe Armstrong

The number of states of three variables in javascript could have is greater of the total number of the atoms of the planet.

When I write code I always think somebody else must have written this before me and I can't find it. Why do we write code if we can't find it with Google. If we can't really find it, then we can write the code. Lot of the code is pain in the arse, it's just boring stuff.

If you can't detect failures, you are unable to recover from them. That's an obvious principle you need.