
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki
“Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?”
On the lack of sense in using the Wiki format for overly constrained or simply locked pages, in The Wiki Way: Quick collaboration on the Web (2001), co-authored with Bo Leuf
Preface; Variant translations:
It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books — setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them... A more reasonable, more inept, and more lazy man, I have chosen to write notes on imaginary books.
The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
“What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda
"I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor”
Source: Forbidden Nights with a Vampire
"Theme from English B"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Attributed to Allen by Herb Caen in Reader's Digest, October 1967. For additional citations see this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/.
Source: Color, Format and Abstract Art' (1977), pp. 99 – 105