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Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?


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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.



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What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.



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What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?



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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.

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.

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.

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.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.



When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.





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