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

   ... even more, the good needs to be genuine, positive, sensitive,
   helping every person, place, and ecosystem to thrive, to live in peace,
   to become more whole, to join in a cooperative effort to make
   everyone help each other to do good ...

   ... that's why we focus first on software that helps people create a
   built environment at the right scale, in support of people and nature,
   grown step-by-step with attention to a nurturing adaptation, adjusting
   everything with an eye on its effect as it unfolds ...
   
   "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 to help the world become 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
   their innate ability to see the living qualities in anything,
   and to generate a living process for growing anything.
   
   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 ..."
 -- Christopher Alexander
   

2017, from rock musician Peter Gabriel, who tried gatemaker in 1997:
“At the core of Christopher Alexander's work is a wonderful contribution to the way architects, planners and people working on their homes think about
what they are creating, especially from the point of view of the psychology of space.   The style and detail of his work goes in and out of fashion,
but I always hoped it would develop into a real science, with its own sets of guiding algorithms through which building projects can be evaluated.
We need more buildings that are warm, soulful and humane environments that can bring out the best of us".

2005, Christopher Alexander to NPR's Jennifer Ludden:
"I think it's our job to DO what mother nature does."

  "As each next step is taken in the differentiating process,
  the computer will enhance the minimal steps taken by the user.
  Thus the user will need to make no more than slight indications
  of what differentiation is to come next
  (according to the prefixed sequence determined by the computer),
  and the computer will immediately respond with a fluid but probable configuration,
  so presented that the user may then immediately modify and adapt it to make it just right,
  almost without thinking. Thus the step-by-step occurrence
  of well-adapted differentiation is essentially guaranteed by
  a new type of man-machine cooperation in which the computer
  does perhaps 75% of the work, enhancing the small indications the user makes
  of where he wants to go. The result is something that cannot ever be achieved
  by a human draftsman in a CAD system, or in a pencil and paper process,
  because in the new system the well-adapted aspect of the emerging form
  is created by a unique form of cooperation between user and machine."
  -- Christopher Alexander: A Research Proposal, 2001