“We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.”
A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- Visions of the Future, PDF, 1992-07-16, 2016-05-13 https://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/People/DDC/future_ietf_92.pdf, (Presentation given at the 24th Internet Engineering Task Force)
frequently cited as the motto of the Internet engineering community
