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When software engineers develop systems to solve a large problem, they divide the problem into its component parts, and they build a separate subsystem for each of those parts.

Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

Marc Andreessen and Bob Metcalfe each found their way to a breakthrough insight by solving a problem for themselves. They created a solution to a challenge they were already experiencing while living in the future. There’s a certain magic in crafting something with your own hands, for your own needs.

Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future

when we look beyond transient technological limitations, we see that image generators merely provide the interface – the ‘connecting cable’ – between the user and the true virtual-reality generator, which is the computer. For it is entirely within the computer that the specified environment is simulated.

David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality

The camera doesn’t see, it only relates the picture, and the computer only interprets it.

Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob

Hive Mind Driver #3: The Caveman at the Computer Screen

Cal Newport • A World Without Email

The dilemma is a cruel one. For efficiency and conceptual integrity, one prefers a few good minds doing design and construction. Yet for large systems one wants a way to bring considerable manpower to bear, so that the product can make a timely appearance. How can these two needs be reconciled? Mills's Proposal A proposal by Harlan Mills offers a f

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering

Linus Torvalds's style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd ... See more

Eric Steven Raymond • The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Taylor was the epitome of the leader as facilitator. He understood the wisdom of an observation that Xerox’s chief scientist and PARC advocate Jack Goldman had clipped from a newspaper and hung in his office: “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.”

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Robert, a seventh grader, expressed his conversion to this style of programming by exclaiming: “See, all my procedures are mind-sized bites.” Robert amplified the metaphor by comments such as: “I used to get mixed up by my programs. Now I don’t bite off more than I can chew.” He had met a powerful idea: It is possible to build a large intellectual