Thomas Paine on Software Design

Thomas Paine on Software Design

I draw my idea of the form of government software from a principle in nature which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;…

At every crossroad on the road...

Maurice Maeterlinck, who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature:
"At every crossroad on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past."

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Release man from the contexts of community...

In "The Quest for Community," Robert Nisbet warned: "Release man from the contexts of community and you get not freedom and rights but intolerable aloneness and subjection to demoniac fears and passions."