Sublime

West sits in his office and declares, “The only way I can do this machine is in this crazy environment, where I can basically do it any way that I want.”

PARC’s leader, Bob Taylor, had an especially deft way of resolving those conflicts that did surface. He employed a mediation model that eliminated the divisive win-lose element from arguments and substituted the goal of clarification. Taylor would urge people to move from what he called a Class 1 disagreement, in which neither party could describe

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California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

I have earlier argued that the sheer number of minds to be coordinated affects the cost of the effort, for a major part of the cost is communication and correcting the ill effects of miscommunication (system debugging). This, too, suggests that one wants the system to be built by as few minds as possible.

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