What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

- Ward Cunningham

I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremen…

- Ward Cunningham

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorro…

- Ward Cunningham

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

- Ward Cunningham

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the languag…

- Ward Cunningham

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm no…

- Ward Cunningham

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

- Ward Cunningham

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

- Ward Cunningham

Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

- Ward Cunningham