Ward Cunningham quotes - page 4

Honest to God, I think Kent Beck's contribution to all this has been taking stuff that he and I discovered quietly together, or picked up from other programmers, and taking it to the limit. Taking it to the limit. And the fact that it actually holds up - and a lot of it improves - when taking it to the limit is why it should naturally be called "Extreme." Kent's single biggest contribution is being daring enough to say, "This is all that matters, and we should do it all the time." (Ward Cunningham)
Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important. The ability to do things in the future is something that I consider suppleness, like clay your hands that accepts your expression. Programs and documents get brittle very quickly. Wiki imagines a more dynamic environment where we accept change... View quote
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People can and do trust works produced by people they don't know. The real world is still trying to figure out how Wikipedia works. A fantastic resource. Open source is produced by people that you can't track down, but you can trust it in very deep ways. People can trust works by people they don't know in this low communication cost environment. View quote
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