Clergyman's

Wiki helped define the category of social software.
- Ward Cunningham

Anonymity relieves refactoring friction. Have learned that people want to sign things. But try to write in a way where you don’t have to know who said it. But when someone who is not in a giving mood uses anonymity , that abuse can drive us away from anonymity. But I hope we can drive the ill-intended out without having to give up the openness.
- Ward Cunningham

Accept that you've got a common goal that we're all working towards and that we're working towards the same goal. In other words, align and self-organize.
- Ward Cunningham

A wiki is a work sustained by a community.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ward Cunningham

I love computer graphics, but every system I've seen to try to turn programming into pictures has lost that syntactic element. There's something about syntax that makes it very precise for reading. I love photography. A photograph will tell a story. But words tell a story even better. Words are more versatile. You can paint a verbal picture that's much richer than you can photograph.
- Ward Cunningham

I could say, ""Wait! Wait! I know what's going to happen down here!"" Well you knew what was going to happen down here. How does it help us get our job done for me to tell you what's going to happen down here? You could say, ""Stop! I want to draw on the white board what we're going to do tomorrow, because I can see it coming."" Well maybe I can see it coming too, but why make a commitment? It will come soon enough. So, we're certainly here and now, but I think we can become excellent predictors. It's just that we're careful not to depend upon prediction anymore than we have to.
- Ward Cunningham

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

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