Ward Cunningham Quotes
- What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?
- The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
- 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…
- 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…
- What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
- 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…
- 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…
- When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.
- 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…
- Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.…