“It was important from the beginning, because one of the characteristics of any good environment is that every part of it is extremely highly adapted to its particularities. That local adaptation can happen successfully only if people (who are locally knowledgeable) do it for themselves.” Keynote Speech to the OOPSLA Convention by Christopher Alexander https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html
“So far, as a lay person trying to read some of the works that have been published by you in this field, it looks to me more as though mainly the pattern concept, for you, is an inspiring format that is a good way of exchanging fragmentary, atomic, ideas about programming. Indeed, as I understand it, that part is working very well. But these other two dimensions, ( ) the moral capacity to produce a living structure and ( ) the generativity of the thing, its capability of producing coherent wholes—I haven't seen very much evidence of those two things in software pattern theory” Keynote Speech to the OOPSLA Convention by Christopher Alexander https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html
“I understand that the software patterns, insofar as they refer to objects and programs and so on, can make a program better. That isn't the same thing, because in that sentence "better" could mean merely technically efficient, not actually "good." Again, if I'm translating from my experience, I would ask that the use of pattern language in software has the tendency to make the program or the thing that is being created is morally profound—actually has the capacity to play a more significant role in human life.” Keynote Speech to the OOPSLA Convention by Christopher Alexander https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html
“その結果何が起きたかというと、無⽬的なデ ザインパターンの乱⽤です。⽬的はわからない けど、デザインパターンを盛り込んだ⽅がソフ トウェアが⾼級になるらしい、なんてとんでも ない迷信がはびこったのです。⽬的のないパ ターンはただの難読化です。” GoF デザインパターン チートシート | ちょうぜつ Advent Calendar Day | @tanakahisateru https://qiita.com/tanakahisateru/items/df d f d a a