In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success. - Gerald M. Weinberg

human interactions are never narrow, never straight, and hardly ever in the directions shown an organization charts. Many serious mistakes have been made in imagining that formal structure was the only structure in an organization.

The social science that provides us with the most useful overall model for computer programming is anthropology. With a little artistic license and stretching of the imagination, we could imagine computer programmers as having a culture — a shared set of beliefs and activities which shape their day-to-day activities.

If a program doesn’t work, measures of efficiency, of adaptability, or of cost of production have no meaning.