Howard G. Cunningham (Ward Cunningham) Quotes
Wikis work best in environments where you're comfortable delegating control to the users of the system.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
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I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
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Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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I have heard that man can acquire superhuman powers through it and perform miracles. I saw a man who had brought a ghost under control. The ghost used to procure various things for his master. What shall I do with superhuman powers? Can one realize God through them? If God is not realized then everything becomes false.
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Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.
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With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.
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Wikis work best in environments where you're comfortable delegating control to the users of the system.
