Some quotes by renowned Software Architecture experts have the power to ignite inspiration and transform the way you see the world of technology.
95% of the words [about software architecture] are spent extolling the benefits of "modularity" and that little, if anything, is said about how to achieve it.
— Glenford J. Meyers (1978)
Everything in software architecture is a trade-off.
— First Law of Software Architecture (The Fundamentals of Software Architecture - Richards & Ford)
Why is more important than how.
— Second Law of Software Architecture (The Fundamentals of Software Architecture - Richards & Ford)
...because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.
— Former Unites States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld