“The big idea is **Messaging** — that is what the kernel of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about (and it’s something that was never quite completed in our Xerox PARC phase). The Japanese have a small word ma — for that which is in between perhaps the nearest English equivalent is interstitial. The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be.” —Alan Kay
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Communication and collaboration is based upon exchange of Polymorphic messages rather than exchange of "executable" code (DNA/RNA in the case of biological cells, machine code in the case of computing.
Phil Jackson, the renown basketball coach – Michael Jordon's coach – would tell his players on the court to always look for the space between.
DOT FROM two-level-diagram