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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.”

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Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham is a renowned computer programmer known for his contributions to the field of software engineering. He is most famous for inventing the concept of the wiki, a system for easy editing and sharing information, and has played a key role in the Agile Software Development movement. more

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

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“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”

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“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

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