Sublime

For the human makers of things, the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation. Thus it is that writing, experimentation, "working out" are essential disciplines for the theoretician.

Red Organizations are wolf packs. In Amber, the metaphor changes: a good organization should be run like an army.

The responsibility for finding and fixing problems should be assigned to every employee,

We centralized all our machines and tape library and set up a professional and experienced machine-room team to run them. To maximize scarce S/360 time, we ran all debugging runs in batch on whichever system was free and appropriate. We tried for four shots per day (two-and-one-half-hour turnaround) and demanded four-hour turnaround. An auxiliary 1

the Braintrust is benevolent. It wants to help. And it has no selfish agenda.

typical project which requires 50 percent of a senior’s time, 100 percent of a middle-level person’s time, and the full-time efforts of three juniors.

In big organizations there are advantages to consistency, but I strongly believe that smaller groups within the larger whole should be allowed to differentiate themselves and operate according to their own rules, so long as those rules work.