In the future we'll only understand how to build good software, 
   if we focus, now, on creating software that does good ...

   "It is a view of programming as the natural genetic infrastructure of a living world which 
   you/we are capable of creating, managing, making available, and which could then have the result 
   that a living structure in our towns, houses, work places, cities, becomes an attainable thing. 
   That would be remarkable. It would turn the world around, and make living structure the norm once again, 
   throughout society, and make the world worth living in again." -- Christopher Alexander

   We need to develop our capacity to work together help the world to be more 
   beautiful, humane, fair, natural, comfortable, and alive. We need to listen 
   carefully to people and nature, and to ground ourselves in reality. 

   Ultimately, we want to help human intuition to do what it does best. That 
   means people's interactions with computers should only help them to do
   what is needed, to inform them, to help them connect to the real world,
   and to draw their attention towards important things they've forgotten, 
   and away from unimportant things they're too focused upon.

   We bring computer people into the Beautiful Software Initiative through the
   Building Beauty core course, so they get a chance to study the physical building
   process with Christopher Alexander's colleagues and students. This stimulates
   a foundation ability to seeing the living qualities in anything,
   and to generate a living process for growing anything in the world.
   
   With this appreciation for the importance of natural structure, we are moving
   forward with the experimental engineering that Alexander felt was needed
   in the practice and application of computing. 

   "... I would hope to see examples of programs which make you gasp 
   because of their beauty. And I would hope for a growing knowledge, 
   in the field of software engineering, of what this means ..."