Brendan Eich

"Technology is a mirror of human society; fix the technology means fixing the society."

"The web was meant to be for everyone, which means it must work for the least powerful."

"Creating a language teaches you that every feature you add removes possibilities elsewhere."

"I believe the future internet must be owned by its users, not its providers."

"The most important thing I learned is that I didn't know everything I thought I did."

"Good code design is about making dependencies explicit so humans can reason about them."

"Protocols matter more than applications because protocols enable freedom."

"I've spent decades learning that the best ideas are often the simplest ones expressed correctly."

"The web could have been closed, but many people chose openness despite business pressure."

"Every decision in language design is a trade-off; the skill is knowing which way to trade."

"I would rather be useful than right, and useful often means admitting when you're wrong."

"The future of the internet depends on people who care about it more than they care about profit."

"I'm grateful for the people who've taught me humility through their criticism."

"Technology serves freedom or it serves control; there's no neutral ground."

"The web is an experiment in whether human beings can cooperate at global scale."

"I've learned that admitting what you don't know is more powerful than pretending expertise."

"Every person who writes JavaScript is part of the global conversation about how computing should work."