Original artwork, not a still
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Looking back, the speaker argues, committees and large multipart projects can produce good, useful software. But the systems that inspire devoted, passionate followers come from one or a few designing minds. Real excitement, in this view, comes from a strong individual vision rather than collective compromise.
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