Two quotes about design
Dan Hill quotes an article by Stephen Bayley about design:
No single individual was ever responsible for the entire creation of a typewriter or a computer yet – for cultural reasons – we feel the need to attribute authorship to a person, not a team.
and:
Design as an all-embracing organisational activity has become a bit of a fiction and the designer’s work is, in fact, closer to the whims of the pleasure principle than the maths of Ohm’s law.
Both very applicable to software development.