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Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham je americký počítačový programátor, který vytvořil první wiki na světě - WikiWikiWeb. Vyvinul ho v roce 1994 a o rok později jej nainstaloval na web své konzultační firmy Cunningham & Cunningham . O wiki napsal i knihu The Wiki Way. Vynalezl též Framework for integrated test. Je průkopníkem návrhových vzorů a extrémního programování. Je jedním ze sedmnácti signatářů Manifestu agilního programování.

Získal bakalářský titul v oboru interdisciplinární inženýrství a magisterský titul v oboru informatiky na Purdueově univerzitě. Absolvoval v roce 1978. Krom vlastní firmy Cunningham & Cunningham pracoval pro řadu firem: Wyatt Software, Tektronix, Microsoft, Eclipse Foundation, AboutUs, CitizenGlobal. Dnes žije v Beavertonu v Oregonu a pracuje pro společnost New Relic.

Je znám jako autor tzv. Cunningamova zákona, který zní: "Nejlepší způsob, jak získat správnou odpověď na internetu, není položit správnou otázku, ale napsat špatnou odpověď." Wikipedia  

✵ 26. květen 1949
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“Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“The blogosphere is a community that might produce a work. Whereas a wiki is a work that might produce a community. It’s all just people communicating.”

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Crucible of Creativity (2005)

“Accept that you've got a common goal that we're all working towards and that we're working towards the same goal. In other words, align and self-organize.”

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Podcast Interview with Ward Cunningham (2006)

“People who understand their collective goals and values are pretty good at self-organizing -- as long as they are allowed to.”

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Podcast Interview with Ward Cunningham (2006)

“Wikis work best in environments where you're comfortable delegating control to the users of the system.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki

“Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.”

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Speaking about Eclipse Foundation
Podcast Interview with Ward Cunningham (2006)

“The decisions I made designing wiki were very much inspired by my desire to create a model for the collaborative process I thought should happen in large code bases. I wanted wiki to mimic that.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

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

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Geek Noise (2004)

“Wiki has a feel of brainstorming, though it's not as interactive. You can do 10 minutes of brainstorming, and 30 minutes of analysis of the product of that brainstorming, and have something in 45 minutes. The pace on wiki is slower. You could write a page about an idea, or maybe a page about a bunch of ideas. Then you could come back in a week and see what's developed on that page.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki

“If you write a lot of programs, and you're used to squeezing them all the time, you find that it's easy to write a program that's simple. A lot of it is having a clear sense of what you want to say — writing the proof by choosing what to prove, and being clear about that. In programming, a lot of simplicity comes from knowing what matters and what doesn't matter.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“I like the notion of working the program, like an artist works a lump of clay. An artist wants to make a sculpture, but before she makes the sculpture, she just massages the clay. She starts towards making the sculpture, and sees what the clay wants to do. And the more she handles the clay, the more the clay tends to do what she wants. It becomes compliant to her will.
A development team works on a piece of code over several months. Initially, they make a piece of code, and it's a little stiff. It's small, but it's still stiff. Then they move the code, and it gets a little easier to move.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Working the Program

“So today, let's write a program simply. But let's also realize that tomorrow, we're going to make it more complex, because tomorrow it's going to do more. So we'll take that simplicity and we'll lose some of it. But tomorrow, hopefully tomorrow's program is as simple as possible for tomorrow's needs. Hopefully we'll preserve simplicity as the program grows.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“Wiki pages are very much free form. Across the whole wiki there is a hypertext structure, but on a given page, within the versatility of your command of your natural language, you can say whatever needs to be said.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki

“Let's not worry about what somebody reading the code tomorrow is going to think. Let's not worry about whether it's efficient. Let's not even worry about whether it will work. Let's just write the simplest thing that could possibly work.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“What I'm really doing is I'm trying to preserve the right for a programmer to think while he's typing. If you feel that it’s not going well, you can stop and say 'What did I get wrong? Let me correct it.”

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Geek Noise (2004)

“Cooperation has a transactional nature, we agree it is a mutual good. Collaboration is deeper, we don’t know what the transaction is, or if there is one, but if I give of myself to this collaboration, some good will come out of it. You have to trust somebody to collaborate.”

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Crucible of Creativity (2005)

“Discussion groups tend to keep covering the same ground over and over again, because people forget what was said before. I think the invention of the Frequently Asked Questions, the FAQ, was a response to that. A lot of times just reading the FAQ is more valuable than joining the discussion group.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki

“You don't want to write a big comment that tells others how to make a change they might want to make, because you don't know what change they're going to want to make. Better to have the attitude that you can't help future programmers make their changes. All you can do is make it easy for them to understand what you were trying to do. And it will be easiest for them to understand what you were trying to do if you were very careful to not try to do too much.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Working the Program

“We erased a problem by not trying to erase the problem, by saying, "This is in the nature of what we do." It's really weird that it could be that simple.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

“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 tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Working the Program

“In the months before I made wiki, we had been having an argument. I think Kent Beck and I were on one side. People who had a lot of faith in the prevailing dogma of software engineering were on the other side. We said, "Collective code ownership is good." They said, "That's ridiculous. You'll never get responsibility. You'll never get quality if you don't have responsibility. And the only way you'll get responsibility is ownership. You have to pin the bugs back on somebody if you want them to ever rise above producing bugs."”

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And I said, "Well that's wrong."
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

“The idea of where does an idea come from and who should get credit for it is pretty soft. But I think people are pretty good at dealing with that softness and recognizing contribution when they know the people involved. With collective ownership, we create a social situation where you can get to know a person by how they spin their intellect into source code statements.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

“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 not sure it has helped.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“What you get as a wiki reader is access to people who had no voice before.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Exploring with Wiki

“When people work code they can often see things I set out to do that they wouldn't notice otherwise. And there are no obligations to say, "Ward you're brilliant," but sometimes they say, "Ward you're brilliant." And that strokes my ego. Pride of ownership? You bet.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

“There is a programming smell here… which is kind of like the smell in your refrigerator, you know. There's a sign that there's something wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on it. But you know if you leave it there, its only going to get worse.”

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Geek Noise (2004)

“What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work

“When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.”

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A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text