Brian Machado

engineering is an art, or it is a tool. those who love engineering are artists, but art doesn't make money. Companies need engineering, and want to make money. artist engineers take jobs because they love engineering, and need money to live. And then they are forced to do tool engineering, engineering that is optimized for

If you tried to make a painting by handing a brush round robin in a 4 person group, it would be shit. Art is the culmination of a significantly thought out idea in one persons mind, expressed through a medium. To make anything great, one consistent entity must be in control. There are too many decisions made on any project for any form of distributed decision making system be as coherent as a single decision entity (usually a human)