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Accountability is made more difficult by the probabilistic nature of risks where no-one is to blame.

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Accountability is, in modern western civilization, a sin usually regarded as necessary. A voluntary action or thought, in many simple societies an involuntary action may fall within the given definition of sin. -for example leprosy among the hebrews . ..

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Accountability is difficult to assign in complex situations. Put simply, the greater number of smokestacks, the harder it is to attribute blame.

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Cooperation is not an unmixed blessing: when snowflakes cooperate, they tie up traffic.

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Cooperation is everything — freckles would make a nice coat of tan if they'd get together.

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Documentation is the castor oil of programming ... Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.

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Documentation is always a risk — don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want to see in print.

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Documentation is the way the program used to be, or perhaps the way it should have been

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Documentation is instructions translated from Swedish by Japanese for English speaking persons.

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Infrastructure is inseparable from one's relationship to it-- to many people traversing a building, a flight of stairs is infrastructure, while to the person in a wheelchair it is an impediment.

Things That Quietly Hold Civilization Together

13 concepts in this pillow book.