I think IT projects are about supporting social systems

Tim Berners-Lee
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. ✨ Donald Knuth, Grady Booch, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Vint Cerf (2011). Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World, p.44, BCS, The Chartered Institute
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