Quote #579
Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed by a
committee. Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst danger of
committees is that they interfere with redesign. It is so much work to
introduce changes that no one wants to bother. Whatever a committee decides
tends to stay that way, even if most of the members don't like it.
-- Paul Graham, "Being Popular"
Everyone knows that it's not a good idea to have a language designed by a
committee. Committees yield bad design. But I think the worst danger of
committees is that they interfere with redesign. It is so much work to
introduce changes that no one wants to bother. Whatever a committee decides
tends to stay that way, even if most of the members don't like it.
-- Paul Graham, "Being Popular"
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- Quote #580
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Kennedy's Comment on... - Kennedy's Comment on Committees:
A committee is twelve men doing the work of one... - Quote #581
People who do good work often think that whatever they're working on is no
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