software

“Software is a very competitive business prone to natural monopolies. A company that gets software written faster and better will, all other things being equal, put its competitors out of business.”

“When a piece of code is being hacked by three or four different people, no one of whom really owns it will end up being like a common room. The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules. Each with a definitive owner …”