More from Ward Cunningham

  1. My hope is that wiki becomes a totem for a way of interacting with people. Tradition in the work world has been more top down, while wiki, …
  2. The blogosphere is a community that might produce a work. Whereas a wiki is a work that might produce a community. It's all just people com…
  3. What I'm really doing is I'm trying to preserve the right for a programmer to think while he's typing. If you feel that it's not going well…
  4. One's words are a gift to the community. For the wiki nature to take whole, you have to let go of your words. You have to be okay with that…
  5. There is a programming smell here: which is kind of like the smell in your refrigerator, you know. There's a sign that there's something wr…
  6. Cooperation has a transactional nature, we agree it is a mutual good. Collaboration is deeper, we don't know what the transaction is, or if…
  7. When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.
  8. With wiki, you have to trust people more than you have any reason to trust them. In 1995, it was a safer environment, don't know if I could…

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