Kuhn on community
last updated: Jan 12, 2026
“If I were writing my book again now, I would therefore begin by discussing the community structure of science.”
- Thomas Kuhn, in /Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge/, “Response to my critics”, p. 252, referring to /The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/.
One of the smartest things I said in the last 40ish years was that, in software, the team is the proper unit of analysis.
So many are so trapped by “The Great Man Theory of [Our Thing]”, the idea that it’s one guy who makes history