“Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.” Quote by Sue Gardner
“I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.” LongWholeGoneLong TimeWhole Life Author:Ani DiFranco
“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.” WayAsksAnswersInternetComputerBest WayPostsWrongQuestioningRight AnswersWrong Answers Author:Ward Cunningham
“When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.” IfsTryingHardMightMistakeSituationCostRight ThingMaking Mistakes Author:Ward Cunningham
“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.” PeopleTryingMadeTurnsEasyDesignTomorrowHarderMade It Author:Ward Cunningham
“What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.” PathSolutionsSimplicity Author:Ward Cunningham
“I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.” MeanDoeI CanMatterHappensAbleDecisionSituationWorryEmpowering Author:Ward Cunningham
“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.” PeopleSimpleNotionSimplicityAwfulDiscussionNot SureSophisticated Author:Ward Cunningham
“When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.” WayHardAsksManagersDataSaying No Author:Ward Cunningham
“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.” LooksMadeProblemBeautifulTurnsLanguageExpectedCodeRoutine Author:Ward Cunningham