10 quotes
Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
My hope is that wiki becomes a totem for a way of interacting with people.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
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 communicating.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
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.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
A wiki is a work sustained by a community.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
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.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
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 have launched wiki today.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
The web has been an experiment in anonymity. Conscious design of low level protocols. Lots of identity infrastructure has been created to make it an online shopping mall, which makes it unpleasant for all of us because the machinery isn’t that great.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
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 there is one, but if I give of myself to this collaboration, some good will come out of it. You have to trust somebody to collaborate.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)
Top down hierarchies make communication work when it is expensive, I hope that wiki can be a flagship in this move in the industry to produce computer support for this kind of work and evolve organizational forms.
Crucible of Creativity (2005)