“The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead seek the abstract understanding of the scientist, and then apply this understanding to natural processes with… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“If “ship early, ship often” is interpreted as the willingness to expose not-quite-feature-complete but well-tested products to the healthy pressures of real users, everybody… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The real agent of change is not computers per se but rather the computation that we are installing into even the most mundane constituents… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Open source is characteristically about herd behavior and local hill climbing. There is such a thing as the wisdom of crowds, but it is… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Mycorrhizal networks have been shown to move water to areas of drought, confer resistance against toxic surroundings or disease, and even support interplant communication.… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent a half-century believing that people should become computer literate. That’s precisely backward. Computing should become human literate.” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“Today’s so-called cloud isn’t really a cloud at all. It’s a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they’re… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
