Ward Cunningham Quotes

#1. The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

Ward Cunningham

#2. Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

David Shuster

#3. 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 work, and they actually made it harder.

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#4. 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 to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.

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#5. 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 look like the language was made for the problem.

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#6. When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

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#7. The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Jane Austen

#8. When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

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#9. Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.

Deion Sanders

#10. 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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#11. I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

Berenice Bejo

#12. I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline.

Cat Stevens

#13. What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

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#14. The cold was bothering me. You'd think I'd welcome it. But it's something to do with being dead, I guess. You don't feel it as cold. You feel it as a sort of nothing, and when you're dead I guess the only thing that you're scared of is nothing.

Neil Gaiman

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

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#16. A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

J.R. Rim

#17. I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

Malorie Blackman

#18. 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.

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#19. The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.

Christopher S. Hyatt

#20. I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Paula Deen

#21. A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

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#22. 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 what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

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#23. I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time

Gabrielle Zevin

#24. Only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Marilyn Ferguson

#25. What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

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#26. Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

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#27. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.

Carlos Wallace

#28. I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to involve me, personally, and yet still generates an experience for groups of people.

Zachary Quinto

#29. The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

Ward Cunningham