Architecture Quote by Douglas Crockford

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful…

— Richard E. Pattis

“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.”

— Melvyn Conway

“unlike the building industry, the software development industry lacks a standard, consistent way to think about, describe and visually communicate software architecture”

— Simon Brown

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification,…

— Fred Brooks

“Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build; they have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“Therefore the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going…

— Julie Morgenstern

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to…

— John Naisbitt

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth