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 im… - Joe Armstrong

Four good tools to learn: Emacs, Bash, Make and Shell. You could use Vi, I am not religious here. Make is pretty damn good! I use Make for everything, that good!

If you do project that guaranteed to succeed, think it could be horribly conservative things. So you can't just do things. You know tat hundred are just fun stuffs and they gonna fails!

Middle men, this is the key abstraction in Erlang. This is the model of the world. Everything in the world is processes. When ever you got any problem what so ever, it does not matter what was of problem is, you put this transducer thing in the middle. It translate the way things talk to each other in the outside world and internally.