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I love this quote from Christopher Alexander, author of Pattern Language on its failure:

"So there is the slightly strange paradox that, after all those years of work, the first three books are essentially complete and, from a theoretical point of view, do quite a good job of identifying the difference but actually do not accomplish anything. The conceptual structures that are presented are just not deep enough to actually break down the barrier. They actually do not do anything."

https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf