Motto

I came across this old quote last night in finishing up David Post's In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace. It seems a fair approximation of how things work (should work?) in the new digital humanities:

"We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code."

David Clark, "A Cloudy Crystal Ball: Visions of the Future." Internet Engineering Task Force, July 1992. [PDF].