Amish Barn

The only thing where you need a big group of people to do something is when you’re building an Amish barn.

Nature Obscura

No one will protect what they don’t are about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

TeX

Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX significantly. If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.