"each [[pattern]] describes a [[problem]] which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the [[solution]] to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice."
"Attendance seemed to be split between [[early Web pioneers]] and [[graduate students]]. The former had retained their [[idealism]], or reclaimed it. The latter hoped to solve for whatever mistakes their forebears made. I felt the intervening generationâs absence like a crater."