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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.

— Ward Cunningham Crucible of Creativity (2005)

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Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important.

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I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

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In creating wiki, I wanted to stroke that story-telling nature in all of us.

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Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

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