Ward Cunningham Quotes
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.
The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.
Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.
There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.
